HGV class 1 driver jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 4,000 employee jobs in it across Stoke-on-Trent, 3.23% of the 124,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Stoke-on-Trent figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 5,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Stoke-on-Trent, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Stoke-on-Trent was £34,744 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 285 freight transport by road workplaces in Stoke-on-Trent at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. 260 of them, 91.2%, 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 Stoke-on-Trent, 3,000 are part time, 66.7% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Stoke-on-Trent sits above it, 1st of 14 areas on this measure. Most of the split is part time, which for road freight means the local count is small enough that a few jobs set the proportion.

Two further counts round out the Stoke-on-Trent picture: 615 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 9,615 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 3rd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 4,000 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Stoke-on-Trent in that order sit Warwickshire at 5,000 and Birmingham at 3,500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 9th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 285 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Stoke-on-Trent in that order sit Walsall at 430 and Dudley at 280.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 4,000 jobs and 285 workplaces that already exist in Stoke-on-Trent, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.