HGV class 1 driver jobs in Norfolk

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 3,000 employee jobs in it across Norfolk, 0.79% of the 378,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Norfolk figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Norfolk, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Norfolk was £35,940 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 500 freight transport by road workplaces in Norfolk at the March 2025 reference date, 65 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 440 of them, 88%, 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 Norfolk, 900 are part time, 28.6% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 25%, so Norfolk sits above it, 2nd of 11 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Norfolk picture: 775 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 5,275 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Norfolk ranks 6th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 3,000, against 3,000 in Norfolk. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Norfolk in that order sit Hertfordshire at 3,500 and Central Bedfordshire at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Norfolk ranks 6th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 500, against 500 in Norfolk. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Norfolk in that order sit Peterborough at 575 and Cambridgeshire at 490.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 3,000 jobs and 500 workplaces that already exist in Norfolk, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.