HGV class 1 driver jobs in North Ayrshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 125 employee jobs in it across North Ayrshire, 0.3% of the 41,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the North Ayrshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 225 warehousing and storage jobs in North Ayrshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in North Ayrshire was £40,730 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 35 freight transport by road workplaces in North Ayrshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 30 of them, 85.7%, 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 North Ayrshire, 30 are part time, 23.1% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so North Ayrshire sits above it, 12th of 32 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the North Ayrshire picture: 45 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 395 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, North Ayrshire ranks 26th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 125 in North Ayrshire. Next to North Ayrshire in that order sit Shetland Islands at 150 and East Lothian at 100.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, North Ayrshire ranks 20th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 35 in North Ayrshire. Next to North Ayrshire in that order sit Argyll and Bute at 35 and South Ayrshire at 35.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 125 jobs and 35 workplaces that already exist in North Ayrshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.