HGV class 1 driver jobs in Bolton

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 900 employee jobs in it across Bolton, 0.77% of the 117,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Bolton figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Bolton, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Bolton was £33,008 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 230 freight transport by road workplaces in Bolton at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 215 of them, 93.5%, 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 Bolton, 200 are part time, 22.2% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Bolton sits above it, 2nd of 24 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 Bolton picture: 1,325 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 5,725 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Bolton ranks 12th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 900 in Bolton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Bolton in that order sit Cheshire West and Chester at 1,000 and Knowsley at 900.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Bolton ranks 4th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 230 in Bolton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Bolton in that order sit Wigan at 260 and Warrington at 215.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 900 jobs and 230 workplaces that already exist in Bolton, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.