HGV class 1 driver jobs in South Tyneside

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 400 employee jobs in it across South Tyneside, 0.98% of the 41,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the South Tyneside figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 450 warehousing and storage jobs in South Tyneside, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in South Tyneside was £31,604 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 30 freight transport by road workplaces in South Tyneside at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 25 of them, 83.3%, 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 South Tyneside, 100 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the North East is 23%, so South Tyneside sits above it, 5th of 12 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 South Tyneside picture: 410 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,260 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, South Tyneside ranks 10th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 850, against 400 in South Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to South Tyneside in that order sit North Tyneside at 500 and Hartlepool at 225.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, South Tyneside ranks 11th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 58, against 30 in South Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to South Tyneside in that order sit North Tyneside at 30 and Middlesbrough at 25.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 400 jobs and 30 workplaces that already exist in South Tyneside, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.