HGV class 1 driver jobs in Redcar and Cleveland

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across Redcar and Cleveland, 2.5% of the 40,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Redcar and Cleveland figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 900 warehousing and storage jobs in Redcar and Cleveland, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Redcar and Cleveland was £35,278 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 40 freight transport by road workplaces in Redcar and Cleveland at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 30 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Redcar and Cleveland 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 Redcar and Cleveland, 150 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so Redcar and Cleveland sits below it, 11th of 12 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 Redcar and Cleveland picture: 15 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,915 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Redcar and Cleveland ranks 6th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 1,000 in Redcar and Cleveland. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Redcar and Cleveland in that order sit Gateshead at 1,250 and Middlesbrough at 700.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Redcar and Cleveland ranks 8th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 40 in Redcar and Cleveland. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Redcar and Cleveland in that order sit Newcastle upon Tyne at 45 and Hartlepool at 35.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 40 workplaces that already exist in Redcar and Cleveland, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.