HGV class 1 driver jobs in Rochdale

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 Rochdale, 2.01% of the 87,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Rochdale was £33,558 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 165 freight transport by road workplaces in Rochdale at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 140 of them, 84.8%, 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 Rochdale, 200 are part time, 10.3% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Rochdale sits below it, 22nd of 24 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Rochdale picture: 375 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 5,125 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Rochdale ranks 7th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 1,750 in Rochdale. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Rochdale in that order sit Liverpool at 1,750 and Warrington at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Rochdale ranks 9th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 165 in Rochdale. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Rochdale in that order sit Halton at 170 and Cheshire West and Chester at 160.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 165 workplaces that already exist in Rochdale, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.