HGV class 1 driver jobs in Reading

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 150 employee jobs in it across Reading, 0.12% of the 121,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Reading figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,250 warehousing and storage jobs in Reading, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Reading was £49,062 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 105 freight transport by road workplaces in Reading at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Reading, 35 are part time, 25.9% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Reading sits above it, 7th of 19 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 Reading picture: 625 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,025 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Reading ranks 18th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 150 in Reading. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Reading in that order sit Isle of Wight at 175 and Brighton and Hove at 50.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Reading ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 105 in Reading. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Reading in that order sit East Sussex at 120 and West Berkshire at 85.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 150 jobs and 105 workplaces that already exist in Reading, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.