7.5 tonne driver jobs in Cornwall

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Cornwall has 205 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,750 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 Cornwall the courier side alone is 0.09% of the 233,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Cornwall, median full-time pay was £33,889 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 280 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cornwall at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 270 of them, 96.4%, employ under ten. C1 rounds run out of the few depots, not the long tail.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Cornwall, 25 are part time, 12.2% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Cornwall sits above it, 4th of 15 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shape, with part-time hours sitting mostly in evening and weekend parcel work.

Two further counts round out the Cornwall picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,955 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Cornwall ranks 7th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 130, against 205 in Cornwall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Cornwall in that order sit Somerset at 305 and Dorset at 130.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Cornwall ranks 4th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 160, against 280 in Cornwall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Cornwall in that order sit Bristol, City of at 295 and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 260.

Every figure here counts what exists in Cornwall: 205 courier jobs across 280 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.