HGV class 1 driver jobs in Falkirk

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across Falkirk, 1.41% of the 71,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Falkirk figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Falkirk, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Falkirk was £40,519 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 80 freight transport by road workplaces in Falkirk at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 65 of them, 81.3%, 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 Falkirk, 100 are part time, 10% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Falkirk sits below it, 30th 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 Falkirk picture: 50 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,550 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Falkirk ranks 5th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 1,000 in Falkirk. Next to Falkirk in that order sit Aberdeen City at 1,000 and Glasgow City at 1,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Falkirk ranks 10th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 80 in Falkirk. Next to Falkirk in that order sit Aberdeen City at 80 and Edinburgh at 65.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 80 workplaces that already exist in Falkirk, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.