HGV class 1 driver jobs in North Lincolnshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,000 employee jobs in it across North Lincolnshire, 2.7% of the 74,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the North Lincolnshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,250 warehousing and storage jobs in North Lincolnshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in North Lincolnshire was £34,129 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 355 freight transport by road workplaces in North Lincolnshire at the March 2025 reference date, 40 of them employing ten people or more. 315 of them, 88.7%, 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 North Lincolnshire, 300 are part time, 14.6% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so North Lincolnshire sits above it, 5th 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 North Lincolnshire picture: 110 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,360 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, North Lincolnshire ranks 3rd of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 2,000 in North Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to North Lincolnshire in that order sit Doncaster at 2,500 and Wakefield at 2,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, North Lincolnshire ranks 4th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 355 in North Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to North Lincolnshire in that order sit North Yorkshire at 395 and Wakefield at 355.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,000 jobs and 355 workplaces that already exist in North Lincolnshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.