HGV class 1 driver jobs in Liverpool

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 Liverpool, 0.61% of the 288,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Liverpool was £38,430 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 200 freight transport by road workplaces in Liverpool at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 185 of them, 92.5%, 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 Liverpool, 150 are part time, 9.1% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Liverpool sits below it, 23rd of 24 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 Liverpool picture: 1,025 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 6,775 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Liverpool ranks 6th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 1,750 in Liverpool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Liverpool in that order sit Cheshire East at 1,750 and Rochdale at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Liverpool ranks 6th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 200 in Liverpool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Liverpool in that order sit Warrington at 215 and Manchester at 200.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 200 workplaces that already exist in Liverpool, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.