HGV class 1 driver jobs in Knowsley

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 900 employee jobs in it across Knowsley, 1.36% of the 66,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Knowsley was £39,064 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 120 freight transport by road workplaces in Knowsley at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 110 of them, 91.7%, 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 Knowsley, 75 are part time, 7.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Knowsley sits below it, 24th of 24 areas on this measure. Class 1 is a full-time trade nearly everywhere, and this is close to the full-time end of it.

Two further counts round out the Knowsley picture: 420 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,320 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Knowsley ranks 13th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 900 in Knowsley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Knowsley in that order sit Bolton at 900 and Salford at 900.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Knowsley ranks 14th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 120 in Knowsley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Knowsley in that order sit St. Helens at 145 and Westmorland and Furness at 120.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 900 jobs and 120 workplaces that already exist in Knowsley, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.