HGV class 1 driver jobs in Doncaster

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,500 employee jobs in it across Doncaster, 1.91% of the 131,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Doncaster figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 10,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Doncaster, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Doncaster was £33,802 a year in 2025, across every occupation in the area together. It is not a driving figure, and no local driving figure is published anywhere, because earnings are not broken down by occupation at this level.

UK Business Counts recorded 745 freight transport by road workplaces in Doncaster at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 715 of them, 96%, employ under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Doncaster, 225 are part time, 9.1% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so Doncaster sits below it, 14th of 15 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Doncaster picture: 200 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 12,700 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Doncaster ranks 2nd of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 2,500 in Doncaster. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Doncaster in that order sit North Yorkshire at 3,000 and North Lincolnshire at 2,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Doncaster ranks 1st of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 745 in Doncaster. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Doncaster in that order sit Leeds at 510.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,500 jobs and 745 workplaces that already exist in Doncaster, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.