7.5 tonne driver jobs in Argyll and Bute

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Argyll and Bute has 50 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 400 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In Argyll and Bute the courier side alone is 0.14% of the 36,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Argyll and Bute, median full-time pay was £40,067 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 15 postal and courier activities workplaces in Argyll and Bute 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. 10 of them, 66.7%, employ under ten, well below the usual courier share. A trade that shape is built on sorting and distribution sites, which is where C1 rounds start.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Argyll and Bute, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Argyll and Bute sits below it, 25th of 28 areas on this measure. Almost all of it is full time, which for C1 work usually means a fixed round rather than relief cover.

Two further counts round out the Argyll and Bute picture: 30 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 480 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Argyll and Bute ranks 14th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 50 in Argyll and Bute. Next to Argyll and Bute in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 55 and Falkirk at 50.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Argyll and Bute ranks 25th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 15 in Argyll and Bute. Next to Argyll and Bute in that order sit West Dunbartonshire at 20 and Inverclyde at 15.

Every figure here counts what exists in Argyll and Bute: 50 courier jobs across 15 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.