HGV class 1 driver jobs in Scottish Borders

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 200 employee jobs in it across Scottish Borders, 0.47% of the 43,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Scottish Borders was £32,164 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 55 freight transport by road workplaces in Scottish Borders 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. 45 of them, 81.8%, 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 Scottish Borders, 45 are part time, 23.1% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Scottish Borders sits above it, 13th 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 Scottish Borders picture: 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 285 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Scottish Borders ranks 21st of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 200 in Scottish Borders. Next to Scottish Borders in that order sit Midlothian at 200 and South Ayrshire at 175.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Scottish Borders ranks 14th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 55 in Scottish Borders. Next to Scottish Borders in that order sit Renfrewshire at 60 and Angus at 45.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 200 jobs and 55 workplaces that already exist in Scottish Borders, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.