HGV class 1 driver jobs in Powys

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 500 employee jobs in it across Powys, 1.02% of the 49,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Powys figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 75 warehousing and storage jobs in Powys, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Powys was £31,163 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 130 freight transport by road workplaces in Powys at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 115 of them, 88.5%, 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 Powys, 150 are part time, 27.3% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Powys sits below it, 17th of 22 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 Powys picture: 40 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 615 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Powys ranks 5th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 500 in Powys. Next to Powys in that order sit Flintshire at 700 and Wrexham at 500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Powys ranks 2nd of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 130 in Powys. Next to Powys in that order sit Flintshire at 130 and Newport at 125.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 500 jobs and 130 workplaces that already exist in Powys, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.