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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Highland
Highland has 265 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 Highland
What the official data says about Highland
C1 rounds straddle two counts. Highland has 265 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 900 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 Highland the courier side alone is 0.23% of the 117,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.
Across all occupations in Highland, median full-time pay was £38,272 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 75 postal and courier activities workplaces in Highland at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 70 of them, 93.3%, 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 Highland, 55 are part time, 20.8% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Highland sits above it, 12th of 28 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 Highland picture: 450 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,615 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Highland ranks 6th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 265 in Highland. Next to Highland in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 275 and Renfrewshire at 255.
On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Highland ranks 12th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 75 in Highland. Next to Highland in that order sit Falkirk at 80 and Dumfries and Galloway at 60.
Every figure here counts what exists in Highland: 265 courier jobs across 75 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
- 265
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 900
- Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
- £38,272
- Postal and courier workplaces
- 75
- Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
- 5
- Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
- 20.8%
- Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
- 0.23%
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.
7.5 tonne driver jobs in Highland: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in Highland?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 900 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Highland and 450 in warehousing and storage, spread across 225 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 Highland?
There is no published pay figure for this role in Highland: 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, 75 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 Highland full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 20.8% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Highland, 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 Highland?
Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in Highland sets out what that employer asks for.