HGV class 1 driver jobs in Bristol, City of

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,750 employee jobs in it across Bristol, City of, 0.56% of the 310,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Bristol, City of figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 6,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Bristol, City of, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Bristol, City of was £42,160 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 265 freight transport by road workplaces in Bristol, City of at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. 240 of them, 90.6%, 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 Bristol, City of, 350 are part time, 21.9% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Bristol, City of sits below it, 9th of 14 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 Bristol, City of picture: 450 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 8,200 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Bristol, City of ranks 4th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 1,750 in Bristol, City of. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Bristol, City of in that order sit South Gloucestershire at 2,000 and Cornwall at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Bristol, City of ranks 5th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 265 in Bristol, City of. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Bristol, City of in that order sit Swindon at 305 and South Gloucestershire at 240.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 265 workplaces that already exist in Bristol, City of, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.