HGV and logistics driving in Scotland
7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire has 20 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, on the most recent business survey. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
Search the adverts
Starts from 7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Dunbartonshire. You can widen it on the next page.
Live adverts
7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Dunbartonshire
Loading the current adverts.
Open adverts for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Dunbartonshire, as a plain list
Published figures for East Dunbartonshire
What the official data says about East Dunbartonshire
C1 rounds straddle two counts. East Dunbartonshire has 20 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 45 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.
Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In East Dunbartonshire the courier side alone is 0.07% of the 27,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.
Across all occupations in East Dunbartonshire, median full-time pay was £44,229 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.
UK Business Counts recorded 35 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Dunbartonshire at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 30 of them, 85.7%, employ under ten, below the usual courier share, so East Dunbartonshire carries more depot-sized operations running 7.5 tonne vehicles rather than vans.
Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Dunbartonshire, 5 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so East Dunbartonshire sits above it, 10th of 28 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.
Two further counts round out the East Dunbartonshire picture: 10 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 75 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, East Dunbartonshire ranks 23rd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 20 in East Dunbartonshire. Next to East Dunbartonshire in that order sit East Ayrshire at 25 and East Renfrewshire at 15.
On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, East Dunbartonshire ranks 17th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 35 in East Dunbartonshire. Next to East Dunbartonshire in that order sit North Ayrshire at 40 and Midlothian at 35.
Every figure here counts what exists in East Dunbartonshire: 20 courier jobs across 35 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
- 20
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 45
- Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
- £44,229
- Postal and courier workplaces
- 35
- Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
- 0
- Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
- 25%
- Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
- 0.07%
The 7.5 tonne driver role
A 7.5 tonne rigid on category C1 is the bridge between a van and a lorry. The rounds are local, the drop counts are high and the vehicle is small enough to get down streets an artic could not attempt.
7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Dunbartonshire: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in East Dunbartonshire?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 45 employee jobs in freight transport by road in East Dunbartonshire and 10 in warehousing and storage, spread across 55 freight, warehousing and courier workplaces on the 2025 business register. Those are jobs and workplaces that exist in the area, not jobs being advertised.
What does a 7.5 tonne driver earn in East Dunbartonshire?
There is no published pay figure for this role in East Dunbartonshire: earnings are not broken down by occupation at local authority level anywhere in the official statistics, so anybody quoting one has estimated it. What is published is the size of the trade here, 35 postal and courier activities workplaces, and each of them sets its own rates. Every advert on this page carries its own rate.
Is 7.5 tonne driver work in East Dunbartonshire full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 25% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in East Dunbartonshire, 5 of them. Nothing published says how the live adverts divide, so read the hours on each one.
Do I need experience to apply for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Dunbartonshire?
Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in East Dunbartonshire sets out what that employer asks for.