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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire has 255 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.
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Published figures for Renfrewshire
What the official data says about Renfrewshire
C1 rounds straddle two counts. Renfrewshire has 255 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 450 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 Renfrewshire the courier side alone is 0.3% of the 85,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.
Across all occupations in Renfrewshire, median full-time pay was £36,492 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 85 postal and courier activities workplaces in Renfrewshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 80 of them, 94.1%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.
Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Renfrewshire, 50 are part time, 19.6% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Renfrewshire sits level with it, 14th 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 Renfrewshire picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,705 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Renfrewshire ranks 7th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 255 in Renfrewshire. Next to Renfrewshire in that order sit Highland at 265 and West Lothian at 235.
On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Renfrewshire ranks 10th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 85 in Renfrewshire. Next to Renfrewshire in that order sit Dundee City at 90 and Falkirk at 80.
Every figure here counts what exists in Renfrewshire: 255 courier jobs across 85 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
- 255
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 450
- Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
- £36,492
- Postal and courier workplaces
- 85
- Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
- 5
- Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
- 19.6%
- Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
- 0.3%
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 Renfrewshire: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in Renfrewshire?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 450 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Renfrewshire and 1,000 in warehousing and storage, spread across 180 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 Renfrewshire?
There is no published pay figure for this role in Renfrewshire: 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, 85 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 Renfrewshire full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 19.6% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Renfrewshire, 50 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 Renfrewshire?
Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in Renfrewshire sets out what that employer asks for.