HGV class 1 driver jobs in Moray

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 700 employee jobs in it across Moray, 1.89% of the 37,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Moray figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 75 warehousing and storage jobs in Moray, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Moray was £34,920 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 40 freight transport by road workplaces in Moray at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 30 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Moray 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 Moray, 50 are part time, 6.7% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Moray sits below it, 31st of 32 areas on this measure. Class 1 is a full-time trade nearly everywhere, and this is close to the full-time end of it.

Two further counts round out the Moray picture: 40 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 815 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Moray ranks 11th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 700 in Moray. Next to Moray in that order sit Fife at 700 and Renfrewshire at 450.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Moray ranks 17th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 40 in Moray. Next to Moray in that order sit East Ayrshire at 40 and Stirling at 40.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 700 jobs and 40 workplaces that already exist in Moray, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.