HGV class 1 driver jobs in Torbay

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 75 employee jobs in it across Torbay, 0.16% of the 48,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Torbay figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 75 warehousing and storage jobs in Torbay, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Torbay was £30,873 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 Torbay at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 Torbay, 30 are part time, 40% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Torbay sits above it, 2nd of 14 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 Torbay picture: 5 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 155 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Torbay ranks 14th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 75 in Torbay. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Torbay in that order sit Plymouth at 350 and Isles of Scilly at 10.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Torbay ranks 14th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 30 in Torbay. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Torbay in that order sit Plymouth at 45 and Isles of Scilly at 0.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 75 jobs and 30 workplaces that already exist in Torbay, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.