HGV class 1 driver jobs in Telford and Wrekin

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,250 employee jobs in it across Telford and Wrekin, 1.37% of the 91,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Telford and Wrekin figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Telford and Wrekin, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Telford and Wrekin was £36,532 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 180 freight transport by road workplaces in Telford and Wrekin at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 160 of them, 88.9%, 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 Telford and Wrekin, 225 are part time, 18.4% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Telford and Wrekin sits level with it, 9th of 14 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 Telford and Wrekin picture: 105 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,855 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Telford and Wrekin ranks 12th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 1,250 in Telford and Wrekin. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Telford and Wrekin in that order sit Shropshire at 1,250 and Dudley at 1,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Telford and Wrekin ranks 12th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 180 in Telford and Wrekin. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Telford and Wrekin in that order sit Shropshire at 245 and Herefordshire, County of at 125.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,250 jobs and 180 workplaces that already exist in Telford and Wrekin, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.