HGV class 1 driver jobs in Dudley

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across Dudley, 0.94% of the 106,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Dudley figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 700 warehousing and storage jobs in Dudley, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Dudley was £35,281 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 280 freight transport by road workplaces in Dudley at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 260 of them, 92.9%, employ under ten, which is the ordinary shape of haulage.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Dudley, 225 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Dudley sits above it, 3rd of 14 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the Dudley picture: 100 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,800 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Dudley ranks 13th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 1,000 in Dudley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Dudley in that order sit Telford and Wrekin at 1,250 and Herefordshire, County of at 600.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Dudley ranks 10th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 280 in Dudley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Dudley in that order sit Stoke-on-Trent at 285 and Shropshire at 245.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 280 workplaces that already exist in Dudley, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.