HGV class 1 driver jobs in Sefton

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 450 employee jobs in it across Sefton, 0.51% of the 89,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Sefton figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 300 warehousing and storage jobs in Sefton, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Sefton was £33,028 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 115 freight transport by road workplaces in Sefton at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 105 of them, 91.3%, 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 Sefton, 50 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Sefton sits below it, 18th of 24 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 Sefton picture: 175 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 925 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Sefton ranks 21st of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 450 in Sefton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Sefton in that order sit Blackburn with Darwen at 450 and St. Helens at 450.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Sefton ranks 16th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 115 in Sefton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Sefton in that order sit Westmorland and Furness at 120 and Oldham at 110.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 450 jobs and 115 workplaces that already exist in Sefton, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.