HGV class 1 driver jobs in South Lanarkshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,250 employee jobs in it across South Lanarkshire, 1.07% of the 117,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the South Lanarkshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,250 warehousing and storage jobs in South Lanarkshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in South Lanarkshire was £39,260 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 165 freight transport by road workplaces in South Lanarkshire 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. 135 of them, 81.8%, 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 South Lanarkshire, 250 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so South Lanarkshire sits level with it, 16th 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 South Lanarkshire picture: 275 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,775 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, South Lanarkshire ranks 3rd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 1,250 in South Lanarkshire. Next to South Lanarkshire in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 1,250 and Aberdeen City at 1,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, South Lanarkshire ranks 2nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 165 in South Lanarkshire. Next to South Lanarkshire in that order sit North Lanarkshire at 240 and Aberdeenshire at 150.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,250 jobs and 165 workplaces that already exist in South Lanarkshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.