HGV class 1 driver jobs in Vale of Glamorgan

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 350 employee jobs in it across Vale of Glamorgan, 0.83% of the 42,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Vale of Glamorgan figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 175 warehousing and storage jobs in Vale of Glamorgan, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Vale of Glamorgan was £35,204 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 45 freight transport by road workplaces in Vale of Glamorgan 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. 35 of them, 77.8%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Vale of Glamorgan 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 Vale of Glamorgan, 125 are part time, 35.7% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Vale of Glamorgan sits level with it, 12th of 22 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 Vale of Glamorgan picture: 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 535 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Vale of Glamorgan ranks 11th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 350 in Vale of Glamorgan. Next to Vale of Glamorgan in that order sit Cardiff at 350 and Neath Port Talbot at 300.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Vale of Glamorgan ranks 17th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 45 in Vale of Glamorgan. Next to Vale of Glamorgan in that order sit Pembrokeshire at 45 and Ceredigion at 40.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 350 jobs and 45 workplaces that already exist in Vale of Glamorgan, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.