HGV class 1 driver jobs in Rhondda Cynon Taf

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 800 employee jobs in it across Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1% of the 80,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Rhondda Cynon Taf figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 900 warehousing and storage jobs in Rhondda Cynon Taf, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Rhondda Cynon Taf was £33,976 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 85 freight transport by road workplaces in Rhondda Cynon Taf at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 75 of them, 88.2%, 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 Rhondda Cynon Taf, 125 are part time, 15.2% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Rhondda Cynon Taf sits below it, 20th of 22 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Rhondda Cynon Taf picture: 85 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,785 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Rhondda Cynon Taf ranks 2nd of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 800 in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Next to Rhondda Cynon Taf in that order sit Newport at 800 and Carmarthenshire at 700.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Rhondda Cynon Taf ranks 7th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 85 in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Next to Rhondda Cynon Taf in that order sit Cardiff at 100 and Wrexham at 85.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 800 jobs and 85 workplaces that already exist in Rhondda Cynon Taf, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.