HGV class 1 driver jobs in Solihull

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 Solihull, 1.21% of the 145,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Solihull figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Solihull, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Solihull was £42,587 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 95 freight transport by road workplaces in Solihull at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 80 of them, 84.2%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Solihull, 225 are part time, 13% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Solihull sits below it, 13th 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 Solihull picture: 200 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,950 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Solihull ranks 8th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 1,750 in Solihull. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Solihull in that order sit Coventry at 2,250 and Walsall at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Solihull ranks 14th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 95 in Solihull. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Solihull in that order sit Herefordshire, County of at 125.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 95 workplaces that already exist in Solihull, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.