HGV class 1 driver jobs in Merthyr Tydfil

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 50 employee jobs in it across Merthyr Tydfil, 0.22% of the 23,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Merthyr Tydfil was £30,636 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 25 freight transport by road workplaces in Merthyr Tydfil at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Merthyr Tydfil, 25 are part time, 45.5% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Merthyr Tydfil sits above it, 2nd of 22 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 Merthyr Tydfil picture: 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 135 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Merthyr Tydfil ranks 20th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 50 in Merthyr Tydfil. Next to Merthyr Tydfil in that order sit Conwy at 75 and Blaenau Gwent at 45.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Merthyr Tydfil ranks 22nd of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 25 in Merthyr Tydfil. Next to Merthyr Tydfil in that order sit Isle of Anglesey at 25.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 50 jobs and 25 workplaces that already exist in Merthyr Tydfil, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.