HGV class 1 driver jobs in Blaenau Gwent

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 45 employee jobs in it across Blaenau Gwent, 0.25% of the 18,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Blaenau Gwent figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 225 warehousing and storage jobs in Blaenau Gwent, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Blaenau Gwent was £32,294 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 25 freight transport by road workplaces in Blaenau Gwent at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Blaenau Gwent, 20 are part time, 44.4% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Blaenau Gwent sits above it, 3rd 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 Blaenau Gwent picture: 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 280 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Blaenau Gwent ranks 21st of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 45 in Blaenau Gwent. Next to Blaenau Gwent in that order sit Merthyr Tydfil at 50 and Isle of Anglesey at 45.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Blaenau Gwent ranks 20th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 25 in Blaenau Gwent. Next to Blaenau Gwent in that order sit Torfaen at 40 and Isle of Anglesey at 25.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 45 jobs and 25 workplaces that already exist in Blaenau Gwent, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.