HGV class 1 driver jobs in Dundee City

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 200 employee jobs in it across Dundee City, 0.26% of the 78,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Dundee City figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 350 warehousing and storage jobs in Dundee City, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Dundee City was £36,219 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 20 freight transport by road workplaces in Dundee City at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 15 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Dundee City 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 Dundee City, 10 are part time, 5.4% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Dundee City sits below it, 32nd of 32 areas on this measure. Class 1 is a full-time trade nearly everywhere, and this is close to the full-time end of it.

Two further counts round out the Dundee City picture: 415 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 965 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Dundee City ranks 19th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 200 in Dundee City. Next to Dundee City in that order sit Stirling at 250 and Midlothian at 200.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Dundee City ranks 22nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 20 in Dundee City. Next to Dundee City in that order sit South Ayrshire at 35 and East Dunbartonshire at 20.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 200 jobs and 20 workplaces that already exist in Dundee City, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.