HGV class 1 driver jobs in Blackburn with Darwen

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 450 employee jobs in it across Blackburn with Darwen, 0.63% of the 72,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Blackburn with Darwen figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 600 warehousing and storage jobs in Blackburn with Darwen, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Blackburn with Darwen was £36,223 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 60 freight transport by road workplaces in Blackburn with Darwen at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 50 of them, 83.3%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Blackburn with Darwen, 75 are part time, 15.8% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Blackburn with Darwen sits level with it, 11th 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 Blackburn with Darwen picture: 175 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,225 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Blackburn with Darwen ranks 20th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 450 in Blackburn with Darwen. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Blackburn with Darwen in that order sit Bury at 500 and Sefton at 450.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Blackburn with Darwen ranks 23rd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 60 in Blackburn with Darwen. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Blackburn with Darwen in that order sit Wirral at 70 and Blackpool at 30.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 450 jobs and 60 workplaces that already exist in Blackburn with Darwen, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.