Class 1 Trunker Driver

Location:  Bolton
Function:  Distribution
Job Reference:  7356
Employment Type:  Permanent / Full Time
Closing Date:  21/12/2025
Date:  21 Nov 2025

 

Title:            Class 1 Trunker Driver
Function:    Distribution
Contract:    Permanent
Location:    Bolton
Shifts:        Tuesday to Thursday 0800 start AND Friday to Saturday 1600 start
Salary:       £758.47 per week

 

Ready to drive your career further? Join Warburtons as a Class 1 Trunker Driver and become part of one of the UK’s most professional fleets, delivering freshness to millions every day. If you’re looking for a role where your skills are valued, your work-life balance matters, and your future is full of opportunity—this is the journey for you!

 

Essential Ingredients

 

  • LGV Cat C+E driving licence (no more than 6 points)
  • Good knowledge of transport legislation and tachographs
  • Reliable, responsible, and experienced in a trunking role
  • Prepared to work a variety of shifts on a weekly rotating basis
  • Able to work autonomously and use on-board technology

 

The Recipe

 

  • Drive in one of the most professional fleets in the country, with state-of-the-art telematics, sat nav, and tracking systems
  • Delivering to Warburtons depots and customer RDC's and third party collections, ensuring great quality and freshness to millions every day
  • Enjoy autonomy!
  • Work set contracted hours and stable shift patterns to help you plan your life around work - Tuesday to Thursday starting at 0800 and Friday to Saturday 1800 start, 10 hour shifts (every Sunday and Monday rest)
  • Be supported with your induction and onboarding, in-house driver training, and fully funded Driver CPC (training is during work hours)
  • Never stay away from home overnight!

About Us

 

Did you know there are two bakery sites in Bolton (Bolton & Variety), a distribution hub, a newly built Innovation Centre, Test Bakery, and our Head Office. We have approximately 480 colleagues working across Bolton and Variety manufacturing and distribution. We produce 1.5 million units per week, across 5 automated lines that bake our delicious fresh bread, crumpets, bagels, morning goods and muffins which is delivered daily to our customers across the UK.

There has never been a more exciting time to join our Bolton Bakeries, with new site and group initiatives and projects, you can instantly make an impact driving our Unbeatable Quality vision of being Britain’s Best Food Business! You’ll be our safe hands, and we know you’ll love to be a part of it.

Extra Dough

 

At last and by no means yeast you will want to know what your breads worth:

 

  • Basic Weekly Pay of £758.47
  • A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
  • Ongoing CPC Modules - your Driver CPC training is in work hours too, not outside of them.
  • Award winning pension scheme with company contributions up to 7%
  • Life assurance
  • Products you'll love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
  • Continued investment in your personal development
  • Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!

 

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.