Van and multi-drop driver jobs in West Lothian

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 235 employee jobs in West Lothian, 0.31% of the 76,000 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, West Lothian records 5,735 employee jobs, 7.55% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 205 postal and courier activities workplaces in West Lothian 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. 200 of them, 97.6%, employ 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 West Lothian, 30 are part time, 13% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so West Lothian sits below it, 21st of 28 areas on this measure. That is a mostly full-time split, which tends to go with employed rounds on a fixed rota.

Two further counts round out the West Lothian picture: 4,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, West Lothian ranks 4th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.31% in West Lothian. Next to West Lothian in that order sit Na h-Eileanan Siar at 0.42% and Renfrewshire at 0.3%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, West Lothian ranks 4th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 200 in West Lothian. Next to West Lothian in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 200 and Aberdeen City at 175.

That is the size of the courier trade in West Lothian, 235 jobs across 205 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.