HGV class 1 driver jobs in Gwynedd

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 125 employee jobs in it across Gwynedd, 0.22% of the 56,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Gwynedd figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 20 warehousing and storage jobs in Gwynedd, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Gwynedd was £32,697 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 45 freight transport by road workplaces in Gwynedd at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 40 of them, 88.9%, 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 Gwynedd, 50 are part time, 40% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Gwynedd sits above it, 7th of 22 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Gwynedd picture: 50 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 195 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Gwynedd ranks 17th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 125 in Gwynedd. Next to Gwynedd in that order sit Torfaen at 150 and Ceredigion at 75.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Gwynedd ranks 14th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 45 in Gwynedd. Next to Gwynedd in that order sit Conwy at 45 and Neath Port Talbot at 45.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 125 jobs and 45 workplaces that already exist in Gwynedd, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.