HGV class 1 driver jobs in Gateshead

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,250 employee jobs in it across Gateshead, 1.32% of the 95,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Gateshead figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Gateshead, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Gateshead was £33,670 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 75 freight transport by road workplaces in Gateshead at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 60 of them, 80%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Gateshead, 300 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so Gateshead sits above it, 2nd of 12 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 Gateshead picture: 510 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,760 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Gateshead ranks 5th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 1,250 in Gateshead. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Gateshead in that order sit Sunderland at 1,500 and Redcar and Cleveland at 1,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Gateshead ranks 5th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 75 in Gateshead. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Gateshead in that order sit Darlington at 80 and Stockton-on-Tees at 70.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,250 jobs and 75 workplaces that already exist in Gateshead, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.