HGV class 1 driver jobs in Devon

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 Devon, 1% of the 350,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Devon figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,250 warehousing and storage jobs in Devon, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Devon was £34,939 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 340 freight transport by road workplaces in Devon at the March 2025 reference date, 65 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 270 of them, 79.4%, 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 Devon, 800 are part time, 21.1% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Devon sits below it, 11th of 14 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 Devon picture: 705 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 6,455 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Devon ranks 1st of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 3,500 in Devon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Devon in that order sit Somerset at 3,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Devon ranks 1st of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 340 in Devon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Devon in that order sit Gloucestershire at 340.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 3,500 jobs and 340 workplaces that already exist in Devon, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.