7.5 tonne driver jobs in Dorset

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Dorset has 130 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 600 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In Dorset the courier side alone is 0.09% of the 151,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Dorset, median full-time pay was £35,311 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 80 postal and courier activities workplaces in Dorset at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 70 of them, 87.5%, employ under ten, below the usual courier share, so Dorset carries more depot-sized operations running 7.5 tonne vehicles rather than vans.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Dorset, 15 are part time, 10.3% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Dorset sits above it, 6th of 15 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shape, with part-time hours sitting mostly in evening and weekend parcel work.

Two further counts round out the Dorset picture: 450 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,180 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Dorset ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 130, against 130 in Dorset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Dorset in that order sit Cornwall at 205 and Wiltshire at 130.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Dorset ranks 12th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 160, against 80 in Dorset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Dorset in that order sit Wiltshire at 115 and Torbay at 60.

Every figure here counts what exists in Dorset: 130 courier jobs across 80 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.