HGV class 1 driver jobs in Midlothian

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 200 employee jobs in it across Midlothian, 0.61% of the 33,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Midlothian was £41,161 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 20 freight transport by road workplaces in Midlothian at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 15 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Midlothian is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Midlothian, 30 are part time, 14.6% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Midlothian sits below it, 26th 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 Midlothian picture: 45 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 295 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Midlothian ranks 20th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 200 in Midlothian. Next to Midlothian in that order sit Dundee City at 200 and Scottish Borders at 200.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Midlothian ranks 24th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 20 in Midlothian. Next to Midlothian in that order sit East Dunbartonshire at 20 and Clackmannanshire at 15.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 200 jobs and 20 workplaces that already exist in Midlothian, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.