HGV class 1 driver jobs in Stockton-on-Tees

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,250 employee jobs in it across Stockton-on-Tees, 2.68% of the 84,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Stockton-on-Tees figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Stockton-on-Tees, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Stockton-on-Tees was £36,599 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 70 freight transport by road workplaces in Stockton-on-Tees at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 50 of them, 71.4%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Stockton-on-Tees is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Stockton-on-Tees, 500 are part time, 22.2% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so Stockton-on-Tees sits level with it, 7th of 12 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 Stockton-on-Tees picture: 360 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 5,110 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Stockton-on-Tees ranks 2nd of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 2,250 in Stockton-on-Tees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Stockton-on-Tees in that order sit County Durham at 3,000 and Northumberland at 1,500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Stockton-on-Tees ranks 6th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 70 in Stockton-on-Tees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Stockton-on-Tees in that order sit Gateshead at 75 and Newcastle upon Tyne at 45.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,250 jobs and 70 workplaces that already exist in Stockton-on-Tees, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.