HGV class 1 driver jobs in Merton

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 225 employee jobs in it across Merton, 0.29% of the 78,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Merton was £38,471 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 90 freight transport by road workplaces in Merton at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 85 of them, 94.4%, 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 Merton, 45 are part time, 20.5% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Merton sits level with it, 15th of 33 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 Merton picture: 190 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,115 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Merton ranks 19th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 225 in Merton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Merton in that order sit Croydon at 225 and Tower Hamlets at 225.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Merton ranks 21st of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 90 in Merton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Merton in that order sit Westminster at 95 and Bromley at 85.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 225 jobs and 90 workplaces that already exist in Merton, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.