HGV class 1 driver jobs in Aberdeenshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 700 employee jobs in it across Aberdeenshire, 0.69% of the 102,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Aberdeenshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 600 warehousing and storage jobs in Aberdeenshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Aberdeenshire was £40,032 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 150 freight transport by road workplaces in Aberdeenshire at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 120 of them, 80%, 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 Aberdeenshire, 150 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Aberdeenshire sits level with it, 15th 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 Aberdeenshire picture: 105 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,405 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Aberdeenshire ranks 9th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 700 in Aberdeenshire. Next to Aberdeenshire in that order sit Highland at 900 and Fife at 700.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Aberdeenshire ranks 3rd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 150 in Aberdeenshire. Next to Aberdeenshire in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 165 and West Lothian at 145.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 700 jobs and 150 workplaces that already exist in Aberdeenshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.