HGV class 1 driver jobs in West Berkshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 350 employee jobs in it across West Berkshire, 0.34% of the 104,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in West Berkshire was £42,135 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 85 freight transport by road workplaces in West Berkshire 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. 75 of them, 88.2%, 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 West Berkshire, 75 are part time, 23.1% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so West Berkshire sits level with it, 10th of 19 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 West Berkshire picture: 500 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,100 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, West Berkshire ranks 13th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 350 in West Berkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to West Berkshire in that order sit Portsmouth at 350 and Windsor and Maidenhead at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, West Berkshire ranks 13th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 85 in West Berkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to West Berkshire in that order sit Reading at 105 and Windsor and Maidenhead at 80.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 350 jobs and 85 workplaces that already exist in West Berkshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.