HGV class 1 driver jobs in Barnet

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 300 employee jobs in it across Barnet, 0.22% of the 136,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Barnet figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 75 warehousing and storage jobs in Barnet, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Barnet was £38,294 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 180 freight transport by road workplaces in Barnet at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 175 of them, 97.2%, employ under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Barnet, 75 are part time, 23.1% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Barnet sits above it, 3rd of 33 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 Barnet picture: 155 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 530 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Barnet ranks 15th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 300 in Barnet. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Barnet in that order sit Waltham Forest at 350 and Haringey at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Barnet ranks 13th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 180 in Barnet. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Barnet in that order sit Waltham Forest at 185 and Bexley at 170.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 300 jobs and 180 workplaces that already exist in Barnet, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.