HGV class 1 driver jobs in East Riding of Yorkshire

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 East Riding of Yorkshire, 1.34% of the 131,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the East Riding of Yorkshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,250 warehousing and storage jobs in East Riding of Yorkshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in East Riding of Yorkshire was £35,020 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 315 freight transport by road workplaces in East Riding of Yorkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 45 of them employing ten people or more. 270 of them, 85.7%, 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 East Riding of Yorkshire, 200 are part time, 11.8% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so East Riding of Yorkshire sits below it, 12th of 15 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 East Riding of Yorkshire picture: 235 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,235 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, East Riding of Yorkshire ranks 5th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 1,750 in East Riding of Yorkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to East Riding of Yorkshire in that order sit Wakefield at 2,000 and Leeds at 1,500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, East Riding of Yorkshire ranks 7th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 315 in East Riding of Yorkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to East Riding of Yorkshire in that order sit North East Lincolnshire at 330 and Bradford at 295.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 315 workplaces that already exist in East Riding of Yorkshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.