HGV class 1 driver jobs in Darlington

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 600 employee jobs in it across Darlington, 1.09% of the 55,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Darlington figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Darlington, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Darlington was £33,840 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 80 freight transport by road workplaces in Darlington at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 75 of them, 93.8%, 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 Darlington, 100 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so Darlington sits below it, 8th 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 Darlington picture: 105 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,705 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Darlington ranks 8th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 600 in Darlington. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Darlington in that order sit Middlesbrough at 700 and North Tyneside at 500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Darlington ranks 4th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 80 in Darlington. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Darlington in that order sit Sunderland at 95 and Gateshead at 75.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 600 jobs and 80 workplaces that already exist in Darlington, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.