HGV class 1 driver jobs in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire, 0.57% of the 306,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Gloucestershire was £37,598 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 340 freight transport by road workplaces in Gloucestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 40 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 305 of them, 89.7%, 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 Gloucestershire, 600 are part time, 32.4% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Gloucestershire sits above it, 4th of 14 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Gloucestershire picture: 360 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,610 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Gloucestershire ranks 6th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 1,750 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Cornwall at 1,750 and Wiltshire at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Gloucestershire ranks 2nd of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 340 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Devon at 340 and Somerset at 340.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 340 workplaces that already exist in Gloucestershire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.