HGV class 1 driver jobs in Oldham

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 600 employee jobs in it across Oldham, 0.65% of the 92,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Oldham was £33,860 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 110 freight transport by road workplaces in Oldham at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 95 of them, 86.4%, 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 Oldham, 125 are part time, 21.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Oldham sits above it, 3rd of 24 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 Oldham picture: 735 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,135 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Oldham ranks 16th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 600 in Oldham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Oldham in that order sit Manchester at 800 and Stockport at 600.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Oldham ranks 17th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 110 in Oldham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Oldham in that order sit Sefton at 115 and Tameside at 110.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 600 jobs and 110 workplaces that already exist in Oldham, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.