HGV class 1 driver jobs in Plymouth

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 350 employee jobs in it across Plymouth, 0.3% of the 118,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Plymouth was £36,483 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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth, 50 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Plymouth sits below it, 14th of 14 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 Plymouth picture: 20 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 870 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Plymouth ranks 13th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 350 in Plymouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Plymouth in that order sit Bath and North East Somerset at 350 and Torbay at 75.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Plymouth ranks 13th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 45 in Plymouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Plymouth in that order sit Bath and North East Somerset at 60 and Torbay at 30.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 350 jobs and 45 workplaces that already exist in Plymouth, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.