HGV class 1 driver jobs in St. Helens

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 450 employee jobs in it across St. Helens, 0.71% of the 63,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the St. Helens figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,500 warehousing and storage jobs in St. Helens, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in St. Helens was £33,379 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 145 freight transport by road workplaces in St. Helens at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 135 of them, 93.1%, employ under ten, which is the ordinary shape of haulage.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in St. Helens, 75 are part time, 17.6% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so St. Helens sits above it, 8th 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 St. Helens picture: 160 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,110 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, St. Helens ranks 22nd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 450 in St. Helens. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to St. Helens in that order sit Sefton at 450 and Wirral at 350.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, St. Helens ranks 13th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 145 in St. Helens. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to St. Helens in that order sit Salford at 150 and Knowsley at 120.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 450 jobs and 145 workplaces that already exist in St. Helens, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.