HGV class 1 driver jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 225 employee jobs in it across Newcastle upon Tyne, 0.11% of the 200,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Newcastle upon Tyne figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 75 warehousing and storage jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Newcastle upon Tyne was £36,726 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 45 freight transport by road workplaces in Newcastle upon Tyne at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 40 of them, 88.9%, 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 Newcastle upon Tyne, 50 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so Newcastle upon Tyne sits above it, 4th 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 Newcastle upon Tyne picture: 95 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 395 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

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

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Newcastle upon Tyne ranks 7th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 45 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Newcastle upon Tyne in that order sit Stockton-on-Tees at 70 and Redcar and Cleveland at 40.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 225 jobs and 45 workplaces that already exist in Newcastle upon Tyne, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.