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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Dundee City

Dundee City has 415 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, on the most recent business survey. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.

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Published figures for Dundee City

What the official data says about Dundee City

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Dundee City has 415 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 200 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 Dundee City the courier side alone is 0.53% of the 78,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Dundee City, median full-time pay was £36,219 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 90 postal and courier activities workplaces in Dundee City at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 80 of them, 88.9%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Dundee City, 55 are part time, 13.3% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Dundee City sits below it, 20th of 28 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 Dundee City picture: 350 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 965 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Dundee City ranks 4th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 415 in Dundee City. Next to Dundee City in that order sit Glasgow City at 450 and South Lanarkshire at 275.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Dundee City ranks 9th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 90 in Dundee City. Next to Dundee City in that order sit Aberdeenshire at 90 and Renfrewshire at 85.

Every figure here counts what exists in Dundee City: 415 courier jobs across 90 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.

Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
415
Employee jobs in freight transport by road
200
Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
£36,219
Postal and courier workplaces
90
Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
5
Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
13.3%
Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
0.53%

The 7.5 tonne driver role

A 7.5 tonne rigid on category C1 is the bridge between a van and a lorry. The rounds are local, the drop counts are high and the vehicle is small enough to get down streets an artic could not attempt.

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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Dundee City: common questions

How big is the logistics sector in Dundee City?

The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 200 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Dundee City and 350 in warehousing and storage, spread across 125 freight, warehousing and courier workplaces on the 2025 business register. Those are jobs and workplaces that exist in the area, not jobs being advertised.

What does a 7.5 tonne driver earn in Dundee City?

There is no published pay figure for this role in Dundee City: earnings are not broken down by occupation at local authority level anywhere in the official statistics, so anybody quoting one has estimated it. What is published is the size of the trade here, 90 postal and courier activities workplaces, and each of them sets its own rates. Every advert on this page carries its own rate.

Is 7.5 tonne driver work in Dundee City full time or part time?

Part-time hours account for 13.3% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Dundee City, 55 of them. Nothing published says how the live adverts divide, so read the hours on each one.

Do I need experience to apply for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in Dundee City?

Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in Dundee City sets out what that employer asks for.