HGV class 1 driver jobs in Perth and Kinross

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 250 employee jobs in it across Perth and Kinross, 0.38% of the 65,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Perth and Kinross figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 50 warehousing and storage jobs in Perth and Kinross, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Perth and Kinross was £37,972 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 60 freight transport by road workplaces in Perth and Kinross at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 55 of them, 91.7%, employ under ten, which is the ordinary shape of haulage.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Perth and Kinross, 50 are part time, 18.2% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Perth and Kinross sits below it, 19th 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 Perth and Kinross picture: 50 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 350 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Perth and Kinross ranks 17th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 250 in Perth and Kinross. Next to Perth and Kinross in that order sit East Ayrshire at 250 and Stirling at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Perth and Kinross ranks 12th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 60 in Perth and Kinross. Next to Perth and Kinross in that order sit Edinburgh at 65 and Renfrewshire at 60.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 250 jobs and 60 workplaces that already exist in Perth and Kinross, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.