HGV class 1 driver jobs in Hartlepool

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 225 employee jobs in it across Hartlepool, 0.73% of the 31,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Hartlepool figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 450 warehousing and storage jobs in Hartlepool, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Hartlepool was £32,302 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 35 freight transport by road workplaces in Hartlepool at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 30 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 Hartlepool, 50 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so Hartlepool sits above it, 3rd 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 Hartlepool picture: 15 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 690 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Hartlepool ranks 11th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 225 in Hartlepool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Hartlepool in that order sit South Tyneside at 400 and Newcastle upon Tyne at 225.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Hartlepool ranks 9th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 35 in Hartlepool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Hartlepool in that order sit Redcar and Cleveland at 40 and North Tyneside at 30.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 225 jobs and 35 workplaces that already exist in Hartlepool, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.