HGV class 1 driver jobs in East Lothian

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 100 employee jobs in it across East Lothian, 0.3% of the 33,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the East Lothian figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 20 warehousing and storage jobs in East Lothian, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in East Lothian was £35,029 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 15 freight transport by road workplaces in East Lothian at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Lothian, 15 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so East Lothian sits below it, 22nd 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 East Lothian picture: 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 130 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, East Lothian ranks 27th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 100 in East Lothian. Next to East Lothian in that order sit North Ayrshire at 125 and Orkney Islands at 100.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, East Lothian ranks 26th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 15 in East Lothian. Next to East Lothian in that order sit Clackmannanshire at 15 and East Renfrewshire at 15.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 100 jobs and 15 workplaces that already exist in East Lothian, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.