Directory
Hauliers by county
Goods vehicle operator licences in the DVSA file dated 7 September 2026, sorted into the counties of England and the council and principal areas of Scotland and Wales by the postcode of each operating centre. Open a county for its largest hauliers, towns and new licences.
The most licensed goods operators are in West Midlands (2,906 company licences), then Greater London and Essex.
- Counties and areas
- 101
- Haulage companies
- 45,229
- Largest county
- West Midlands
- Lorries in the largest
- 38,893
Where the hauliers are
The 12 counties and areas with the most company goods licences. A licence with operating centres in two counties counts in both.
- West Midlands2,906 company licences, 12%
- Greater London2,779 company licences, 12%
- Essex2,517 company licences, 11%
- West Yorkshire2,266 company licences, 10%
- Greater Manchester2,265 company licences, 10%
- Kent1,955 company licences, 8%
- Lincolnshire1,666 company licences, 7%
- Lancashire1,620 company licences, 7%
- Hampshire1,577 company licences, 7%
- South Yorkshire1,494 company licences, 6%
- Staffordshire1,378 company licences, 6%
- Leicestershire1,370 company licences, 6%
England
- Bedfordshire909 company licences
- Berkshire967 company licences
- Bristol532 company licences
- Buckinghamshire1,034 company licences
- Cambridgeshire931 company licences
- Cheshire1,260 company licences
- Cornwall519 company licences
- County Durham884 company licences
- Cumbria648 company licences
- Derbyshire1,291 company licences
- Devon1,032 company licences
- Dorset569 company licences
- East Riding of Yorkshire844 company licences
- East Sussex451 company licences
- Essex2,517 company licences
- Gloucestershire994 company licences
- Greater London2,779 company licences
- Greater Manchester2,265 company licences
- Hampshire1,577 company licences
- Herefordshire288 company licences
- Hertfordshire1,074 company licences
- Isle of Wight113 company licences
- Kent1,955 company licences
- Lancashire1,620 company licences
- Leicestershire1,370 company licences
- Lincolnshire1,666 company licences
- Merseyside1,011 company licences
- Norfolk1,011 company licences
- North Yorkshire917 company licences
- Northamptonshire1,137 company licences
- Northumberland275 company licences
- Nottinghamshire987 company licences
- Oxfordshire591 company licences
- Rutland34 company licences
- Shropshire766 company licences
- Somerset1,073 company licences
- South Yorkshire1,494 company licences
- Staffordshire1,378 company licences
- Suffolk1,100 company licences
- Surrey905 company licences
- Tyne and Wear642 company licences
- Warwickshire951 company licences
- West Midlands2,906 company licences
- West Sussex683 company licences
- West Yorkshire2,266 company licences
- Wiltshire746 company licences
- Worcestershire669 company licences
Scotland
- Aberdeen217 company licences
- Aberdeenshire309 company licences
- Angus94 company licences
- Argyll and Bute112 company licences
- Clackmannanshire48 company licences
- Dumfries and Galloway255 company licences
- Dundee137 company licences
- East Ayrshire172 company licences
- East Dunbartonshire40 company licences
- East Lothian58 company licences
- East Renfrewshire33 company licences
- Edinburgh138 company licences
- Falkirk214 company licences
- Fife246 company licences
- Glasgow346 company licences
- Highland406 company licences
- Inverclyde28 company licences
- Midlothian78 company licences
- Moray99 company licences
- Na h-Eileanan Siar55 company licences
- North Ayrshire118 company licences
- North Lanarkshire503 company licences
- Orkney Islands42 company licences
- Perth and Kinross176 company licences
- Renfrewshire128 company licences
- Scottish Borders125 company licences
- Shetland Islands58 company licences
- South Ayrshire66 company licences
- South Lanarkshire361 company licences
- Stirling106 company licences
- West Dunbartonshire49 company licences
- West Lothian279 company licences
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent71 company licences
- Bridgend211 company licences
- Caerphilly130 company licences
- Cardiff294 company licences
- Carmarthenshire293 company licences
- Ceredigion104 company licences
- Conwy76 company licences
- Denbighshire130 company licences
- Flintshire255 company licences
- Gwynedd153 company licences
- Isle of Anglesey90 company licences
- Merthyr Tydfil52 company licences
- Monmouthshire151 company licences
- Neath Port Talbot130 company licences
- Newport221 company licences
- Pembrokeshire159 company licences
- Powys269 company licences
- Rhondda Cynon Taf182 company licences
- Swansea201 company licences
- Torfaen82 company licences
- Vale of Glamorgan93 company licences
- Wrexham174 company licences
How counties are worked out
Each operating centre’s postcode district is placed in the county where most of its postcodes are, using the Office for National Statistics postcode directory. England uses its ceremonial counties (Greater London, Kent, West Yorkshire); Scotland its 32 council areas; Wales its 22 principal areas.
County pages are indexed for search when at least 10 company goods licences have an operating centre there. Sole traders and partnerships are counted, never named.
DVSA file 7 Sep 2026Source: DVSA operator licence data, file dated , read . How we read it
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