HGV class 1 driver jobs in Highland

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 900 employee jobs in it across Highland, 0.77% of the 117,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Highland figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 450 warehousing and storage jobs in Highland, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Highland was £38,272 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 125 freight transport by road workplaces in Highland at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 105 of them, 84%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Highland, 150 are part time, 17.6% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Highland sits below it, 20th 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 Highland picture: 265 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,615 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Highland ranks 8th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 900 in Highland. Next to Highland in that order sit West Lothian at 1,000 and Aberdeenshire at 700.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Highland ranks 6th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 125 in Highland. Next to Highland in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 130 and Glasgow City at 110.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 900 jobs and 125 workplaces that already exist in Highland, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.