HGV class 1 driver jobs in Neath Port Talbot

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 300 employee jobs in it across Neath Port Talbot, 0.63% of the 48,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Neath Port Talbot figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Neath Port Talbot, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Neath Port Talbot was £37,417 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 45 freight transport by road workplaces in Neath Port Talbot at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 35 of them, 77.8%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Neath Port Talbot is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Neath Port Talbot, 40 are part time, 13.8% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Neath Port Talbot sits below it, 21st of 22 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 Neath Port Talbot picture: 105 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,405 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Neath Port Talbot ranks 12th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 300 in Neath Port Talbot. Next to Neath Port Talbot in that order sit Vale of Glamorgan at 350 and Swansea at 300.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Neath Port Talbot ranks 15th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 45 in Neath Port Talbot. Next to Neath Port Talbot in that order sit Gwynedd at 45 and Pembrokeshire at 45.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 300 jobs and 45 workplaces that already exist in Neath Port Talbot, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.