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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Neath Port Talbot

Neath Port Talbot has 105 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 Neath Port Talbot

What the official data says about Neath Port Talbot

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Neath Port Talbot has 105 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 300 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 Neath Port Talbot the courier side alone is 0.22% of the 48,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Neath Port Talbot, median full-time pay was £37,417 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 95 postal and courier activities workplaces in Neath Port Talbot 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 Neath Port Talbot, 10 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across Wales is 23.1%, so Neath Port Talbot sits below it, 11th of 17 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the Neath Port Talbot picture: 2,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,405 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Neath Port Talbot ranks 8th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 40, against 105 in Neath Port Talbot. Next to Neath Port Talbot in that order sit Carmarthenshire at 105 and Rhondda Cynon Taf at 85.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Neath Port Talbot ranks 6th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 48, against 95 in Neath Port Talbot. Next to Neath Port Talbot in that order sit Rhondda Cynon Taf at 100 and Bridgend at 85.

Every figure here counts what exists in Neath Port Talbot: 105 courier jobs across 95 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.

Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
105
Employee jobs in freight transport by road
300
Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
£37,417
Postal and courier workplaces
95
Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
0
Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
16.7%
Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
0.22%

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 Neath Port Talbot: common questions

How big is the logistics sector in Neath Port Talbot?

The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 300 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Neath Port Talbot and 2,000 in warehousing and storage, spread across 155 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 Neath Port Talbot?

There is no published pay figure for this role in Neath Port Talbot: 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, 95 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 Neath Port Talbot full time or part time?

Part-time hours account for 16.7% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Neath Port Talbot, 10 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 Neath Port Talbot?

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