HGV class 1 driver jobs in Trafford

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,000 employee jobs in it across Trafford, 1.21% of the 165,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Trafford figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,250 warehousing and storage jobs in Trafford, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Trafford was £38,682 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 110 freight transport by road workplaces in Trafford at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 75 of them, 68.2%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Trafford is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Trafford, 225 are part time, 11.4% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Trafford sits below it, 20th of 24 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Trafford picture: 360 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,610 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Trafford ranks 4th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 2,000 in Trafford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Trafford in that order sit Halton at 2,000 and Cheshire East at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Trafford ranks 19th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 110 in Trafford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Trafford in that order sit Tameside at 110 and Bury at 105.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,000 jobs and 110 workplaces that already exist in Trafford, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.