HGV class 1 driver jobs in Dumfries and Galloway

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,250 employee jobs in it across Dumfries and Galloway, 2.12% of the 59,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Dumfries and Galloway figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 75 warehousing and storage jobs in Dumfries and Galloway, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Dumfries and Galloway was £34,239 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 130 freight transport by road workplaces in Dumfries and Galloway at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. 100 of them, 76.9%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Dumfries and Galloway 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 Dumfries and Galloway, 200 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Dumfries and Galloway sits below it, 21st of 32 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 Dumfries and Galloway picture: 55 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,380 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Dumfries and Galloway ranks 2nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 1,250 in Dumfries and Galloway. Next to Dumfries and Galloway in that order sit North Lanarkshire at 2,000 and South Lanarkshire at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Dumfries and Galloway ranks 5th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 130 in Dumfries and Galloway. Next to Dumfries and Galloway in that order sit West Lothian at 145 and Highland at 125.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,250 jobs and 130 workplaces that already exist in Dumfries and Galloway, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.