HGV class 1 driver jobs in East Ayrshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 250 employee jobs in it across East Ayrshire, 0.61% of the 41,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the East Ayrshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 150 warehousing and storage jobs in East Ayrshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in East Ayrshire was £37,250 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 40 freight transport by road workplaces in East Ayrshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 35 of them, 87.5%, 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 East Ayrshire, 50 are part time, 18.2% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so East Ayrshire sits below it, 18th 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 East Ayrshire picture: 25 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 425 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, East Ayrshire ranks 16th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 250 in East Ayrshire. Next to East Ayrshire in that order sit Edinburgh at 300 and Perth and Kinross at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, East Ayrshire ranks 16th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 40 in East Ayrshire. Next to East Ayrshire in that order sit Angus at 45 and Moray at 40.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 250 jobs and 40 workplaces that already exist in East Ayrshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.