HGV class 1 driver jobs in Westmorland and Furness

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,500 employee jobs in it across Westmorland and Furness, 1.39% of the 108,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Westmorland and Furness figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 150 warehousing and storage jobs in Westmorland and Furness, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Westmorland and Furness was £40,529 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 120 freight transport by road workplaces in Westmorland and Furness at the March 2025 reference date, 35 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 90 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Westmorland and Furness is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Westmorland and Furness, 175 are part time, 12.3% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Westmorland and Furness sits below it, 19th of 24 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 Westmorland and Furness picture: 150 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,800 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Westmorland and Furness ranks 9th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 1,500 in Westmorland and Furness. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Westmorland and Furness in that order sit Warrington at 1,750 and Wigan at 1,500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Westmorland and Furness ranks 15th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 120 in Westmorland and Furness. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Westmorland and Furness in that order sit Knowsley at 120 and Sefton at 115.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,500 jobs and 120 workplaces that already exist in Westmorland and Furness, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.