HGV class 1 driver jobs in Cornwall

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 Cornwall, 0.75% of the 233,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Cornwall was £33,889 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 205 freight transport by road workplaces in Cornwall at the March 2025 reference date, 35 of them employing ten people or more. 170 of them, 82.9%, 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 Cornwall, 350 are part time, 21.9% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Cornwall sits below it, 10th 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 Cornwall picture: 205 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,955 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Cornwall ranks 5th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 1,750 in Cornwall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Cornwall in that order sit Bristol, City of at 1,750 and Gloucestershire at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Cornwall ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 205 in Cornwall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Cornwall in that order sit Wiltshire at 225 and North Somerset at 200.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 205 workplaces that already exist in Cornwall, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.