HGV class 1 driver jobs in Southend-on-Sea

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 200 employee jobs in it across Southend-on-Sea, 0.31% of the 64,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Southend-on-Sea figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 40 warehousing and storage jobs in Southend-on-Sea, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Southend-on-Sea was £31,748 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 55 freight transport by road workplaces in Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea, 75 are part time, 37.5% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 25%, so Southend-on-Sea sits above it, 1st of 11 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 Southend-on-Sea picture: 20 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 260 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Southend-on-Sea ranks 11th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 3,000, against 200 in Southend-on-Sea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Southend-on-Sea in that order sit Bedford at 600.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Southend-on-Sea ranks 11th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 500, against 55 in Southend-on-Sea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Southend-on-Sea in that order sit Bedford at 190.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 200 jobs and 55 workplaces that already exist in Southend-on-Sea, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.