HGV class 1 driver jobs in West Lothian

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across West Lothian, 1.32% of the 76,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the West Lothian figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 4,500 warehousing and storage jobs in West Lothian, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in West Lothian was £38,316 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 145 freight transport by road workplaces in West Lothian at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 125 of them, 86.2%, 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 West Lothian, 150 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so West Lothian sits below it, 28th of 32 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the West Lothian picture: 235 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 5,735 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, West Lothian ranks 7th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 1,000 in West Lothian. Next to West Lothian in that order sit Glasgow City at 1,000 and Highland at 900.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, West Lothian ranks 4th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 145 in West Lothian. Next to West Lothian in that order sit Aberdeenshire at 150 and Dumfries and Galloway at 130.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 145 workplaces that already exist in West Lothian, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.