7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Lothian

C1 rounds straddle two counts. East Lothian has 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 100 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 East Lothian the courier side alone is 0.03% of the 33,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in East Lothian, median full-time pay was £35,029 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 20 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Lothian at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 East Lothian, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so East Lothian sits below it, 27th 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 East Lothian picture: 20 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 130 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, East Lothian ranks 27th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 10 in East Lothian. Next to East Lothian in that order sit West Dunbartonshire at 15 and Scottish Borders at 10.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, East Lothian ranks 22nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 20 in East Lothian. Next to East Lothian in that order sit Clackmannanshire at 20 and Stirling at 20.

Every figure here counts what exists in East Lothian: 10 courier jobs across 20 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.