HGV class 1 driver jobs in Lancashire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 5,000 employee jobs in it across Lancashire, 0.95% of the 528,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Lancashire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 4,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Lancashire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Lancashire was £35,779 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 760 freight transport by road workplaces in Lancashire at the March 2025 reference date, 95 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 670 of them, 88.2%, 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 Lancashire, 900 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Lancashire sits level with it, 10th of 24 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 Lancashire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 10,250 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Lancashire ranks 1st of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 5,000 in Lancashire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Lancashire in that order sit Cumberland at 2,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Lancashire ranks 1st of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 760 in Lancashire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Lancashire in that order sit Cheshire East at 285.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 5,000 jobs and 760 workplaces that already exist in Lancashire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.