HGV class 1 driver jobs in Renfrewshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 450 employee jobs in it across Renfrewshire, 0.53% of the 85,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Renfrewshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Renfrewshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Renfrewshire was £36,492 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 Renfrewshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 50 of them, 83.3%, 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 Renfrewshire, 75 are part time, 15.8% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Renfrewshire sits below it, 24th of 32 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Renfrewshire picture: 255 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,705 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Renfrewshire ranks 12th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 450 in Renfrewshire. Next to Renfrewshire in that order sit Moray at 700 and Argyll and Bute at 400.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Renfrewshire ranks 13th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 60 in Renfrewshire. Next to Renfrewshire in that order sit Perth and Kinross at 60 and Scottish Borders at 55.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 450 jobs and 60 workplaces that already exist in Renfrewshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.