HGV class 1 driver jobs in Hertfordshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 3,500 employee jobs in it across Hertfordshire, 0.54% of the 652,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Hertfordshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 7,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Hertfordshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Hertfordshire was £42,775 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 695 freight transport by road workplaces in Hertfordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 50 of them employing ten people or more. 645 of them, 92.8%, 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 Hertfordshire, 800 are part time, 21.1% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 25%, so Hertfordshire sits below it, 9th of 11 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 Hertfordshire picture: 1,800 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 12,300 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Hertfordshire ranks 5th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 3,000, against 3,500 in Hertfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Hertfordshire in that order sit Thurrock at 4,000 and Norfolk at 3,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Hertfordshire ranks 4th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 500, against 695 in Hertfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Hertfordshire in that order sit Thurrock at 750 and Peterborough at 575.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 3,500 jobs and 695 workplaces that already exist in Hertfordshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.