HGV class 1 driver jobs in Kirklees

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,250 employee jobs in it across Kirklees, 0.77% of the 162,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Kirklees figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Kirklees, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Kirklees was £33,613 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 275 freight transport by road workplaces in Kirklees at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. 245 of them, 89.1%, 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 Kirklees, 175 are part time, 12.3% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so Kirklees sits level with it, 11th 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 Kirklees picture: 370 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,620 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Kirklees ranks 8th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 1,250 in Kirklees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Kirklees in that order sit Bradford at 1,250 and North East Lincolnshire at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Kirklees ranks 9th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 275 in Kirklees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Kirklees in that order sit Bradford at 295 and Barnsley at 270.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,250 jobs and 275 workplaces that already exist in Kirklees, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.