HGV class 1 driver jobs in Monmouthshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 250 employee jobs in it across Monmouthshire, 0.69% of the 36,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Monmouthshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 800 warehousing and storage jobs in Monmouthshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Monmouthshire was £38,844 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 75 freight transport by road workplaces in Monmouthshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 65 of them, 86.7%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Monmouthshire, 75 are part time, 30% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Monmouthshire sits below it, 16th of 22 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Monmouthshire picture: 5 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,055 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Monmouthshire ranks 14th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 250 in Monmouthshire. Next to Monmouthshire in that order sit Swansea at 300 and Denbighshire at 175.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Monmouthshire ranks 10th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 75 in Monmouthshire. Next to Monmouthshire in that order sit Caerphilly at 80 and Swansea at 75.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 250 jobs and 75 workplaces that already exist in Monmouthshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.