Van and multi-drop driver jobs in East Lothian

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 10 employee jobs in East Lothian, 0.03% of the 33,000 employee jobs in the area.

Parcel volume follows population and depot placement rather than local industry, so an area with a sorting hub in it carries a count well above its size. Taking freight, warehousing and courier work together, East Lothian records 130 employee jobs, 0.39% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 20 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Lothian at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. A one-person courier operation is usually an owner-driver, and an owner-driver round is a contract, not a job.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Lothian, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so East Lothian sits below it, 27th of 28 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the East Lothian picture: 20 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 100 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, East Lothian ranks 27th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.03% in East Lothian. Next to East Lothian in that order sit Fife at 0.04% and South Ayrshire at 0.03%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, East Lothian ranks 22nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 20 in East Lothian. Next to East Lothian in that order sit Clackmannanshire at 20 and West Dunbartonshire at 20.

That is the size of the courier trade in East Lothian, 10 jobs across 20 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.