HGV class 1 driver jobs in West Sussex

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,750 employee jobs in it across West Sussex, 0.45% of the 389,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the West Sussex figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,000 warehousing and storage jobs in West Sussex, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in West Sussex was £37,916 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 325 freight transport by road workplaces in West Sussex at the March 2025 reference date, 40 of them employing ten people or more. 285 of them, 87.7%, 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 West Sussex, 450 are part time, 26.5% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so West Sussex sits above it, 6th 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 Sussex picture: 1,950 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 6,700 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, West Sussex ranks 5th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 1,750 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Oxfordshire at 1,750 and Milton Keynes at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, West Sussex ranks 6th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 325 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Slough at 335 and Oxfordshire at 305.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 325 workplaces that already exist in West Sussex, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.