Class 2 HGV Driver – Nights

Locations: Duxford (Cambridge) & Bedford
Contract: Permanent, full-time
Salary: £15.50 per hour – £32,250 – £42,000 + £26/night-out allowance, overtime & weekend premiums
Hours: 2–3 nights out per week, Monday–Friday trunking & back-loads

From our blue-and-cream rigids to newly delivered electric units, Welch Group has kept UK freight moving since 1934—and we’re growing fast on long-haul pallet distribution.

Your overnight runs maximise fleet utilisation, reduce empty miles and help us deliver a carbon-reduction roadmap that includes expanding the electric rigid fleet. There may be a requirement to help out on multi drop pallet network work when it gets busy.

• Drive a sleeper-pod rigid, planning safe overnight stops (we don’t park in laybys!)
• Deliver full & part loads nationwide; collect back-loads where scheduled
• Record ePODs, fuel/electric usage and tacho data accurately
• Guard compliance: daily walk-around, hours & rest rules, load security
• Represent Welch Group professionally at RDCs and customer sites

• LGV C licence & Driver CPC
• Experience with night-out or long-distance runs preferred
• Respect for safety, legal hours and customer service
• Comfortable using on-board telematics & driver-handheld

• £26 night-out allowance + overtime/weekend uplift
• Pension, safe-driving bonus, quarterly driver-awards scheme
• Modern depot facilities: showers, laundry, subsidised canteen

Sound like your next road? Call Andy Costen on or hit Apply and claim your cab.

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