HGV class 1 driver jobs in Thurrock

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 Thurrock, 5.06% of the 79,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Thurrock figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 10,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Thurrock, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Thurrock was £40,623 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 750 freight transport by road workplaces in Thurrock 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. 680 of them, 90.7%, 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 Thurrock, 1,000 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 25%, so Thurrock sits level with it, 6th of 11 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the Thurrock picture: 475 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 14,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Thurrock ranks 4th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 3,000, against 4,000 in Thurrock. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Thurrock in that order sit Cambridgeshire at 4,000 and Hertfordshire at 3,500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Thurrock ranks 3rd of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 500, against 750 in Thurrock. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Thurrock in that order sit Suffolk at 1,030 and Hertfordshire at 695.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 4,000 jobs and 750 workplaces that already exist in Thurrock, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.