HGV class 1 driver jobs in Torfaen

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 150 employee jobs in it across Torfaen, 0.41% of the 37,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Torfaen figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 175 warehousing and storage jobs in Torfaen, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Torfaen was £36,068 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 40 freight transport by road workplaces in Torfaen at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 35 of them, 87.5%, 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 Torfaen, 75 are part time, 50% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Torfaen sits above it, 1st of 22 areas on this measure. Most of the split is part time, which for road freight means the local count is small enough that a few jobs set the proportion.

Two further counts round out the Torfaen picture: 20 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 345 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Torfaen ranks 16th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 150 in Torfaen. Next to Torfaen in that order sit Denbighshire at 175 and Gwynedd at 125.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Torfaen ranks 19th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 40 in Torfaen. Next to Torfaen in that order sit Ceredigion at 40 and Blaenau Gwent at 25.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 150 jobs and 40 workplaces that already exist in Torfaen, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.