Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in Aberdeen
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the Aberdeen council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
219 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Aberdeen council area, as do 17 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 9,344 lorries. The largest fleet is Royal Mail Group Ltd (571 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 219
- Goods licences
- 236 17 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 9,344
- New licences in 2026
- 4
Largest haulage operators in Aberdeen
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Aberdeen council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 219). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Aberdeen. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Mail Group LtdStandard National · 04138203 | 2 | 571 | |
| 2 | Gregory Distribution (Holdings) LimitedStandard National · 06891444 | 2 | 559 | |
| 3 | DHL Supply Chain LimitedStandard International · 00528867 | 1 | 486 | Earned recognition |
| 4 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 1 | 384 | |
| 5 | Gxo Logistics UK LimitedStandard International · SC037270 | 1 | 353 | Earned recognition |
| 6 | Breedon Trading LimitedStandard National · 00156531 | 1 | 306 | |
| 7 | Fedex Express UK Transportation LimitedStandard National · 01628530 | 1 | 240 | |
| 8 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 2 | 182 | |
| 9 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 1 | 173 | |
| 10 | Certas Energy UK LimitedStandard National · 04168225 | 1 | 167 | |
| 11 | G4S Cash Solutions (UK) LimitedStandard National · 00354883 | 1 | 163 | |
| 12 | Arnold Clark Automobiles LtdStandard National · SC036386 | 1 | 162 | |
| 13 | Dfds Logistics Services LimitedStandard International · 01682142 | 1 | 155 | |
| 14 | Amey Ow LimitedStandard National · 01922327 | 1 | 148 | |
| 15 | Warburtons LtdStandard National · 00178711 | 1 | 148 | Earned recognition |
| 16 | Asco UK LtdStandard National · SC029934 | 8 | 145 | |
| 17 | Dpdgroup UK LtdStandard National · 00732993 | 1 | 134 | Earned recognition |
| 18 | Huws Gray LtdRestricted · 02506633 | 1 | 129 | |
| 19 | M K M Building Supplies LtdRestricted · 03100815 | 1 | 115 | |
| 20 | Scotia Gas Networks LimitedRestricted · 04958135 | 1 | 115 | |
| 21 | Gxo Logistics Drinks LimitedStandard National · 05761433 | 2 | 114 | |
| 22 | Aberdeen City CouncilStandard National | 7 | 111 | |
| 23 | Leiths (Scotland) LtdStandard National · SC062692 | 3 | 110 | |
| 24 | Sse PLCRestricted · SC117119 | 1 | 109 | |
| 25 | Travis Perkins PLCRestricted · 00824821 | 1 | 105 | Earned recognition |
Plus 17 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Aberdeen
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
39% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 38% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 13.
- Standard National goods110 47%
- Restricted goods92 39%
- Standard International goods34 14%
- 1 lorries:27 licences
- 2 lorries:28 licences
- 3–5 lorries:35 licences
- 6–10 lorries:24 licences
- 11–25 lorries:36 licences
- 26–50 lorries:39 licences
- 51–100 lorries:22 licences
- 100+ lorries:25 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Aberdeen.
- Postcode district AB12:86 company licences
- Postcode district AB21:62 company licences
- Postcode district AB23:43 company licences
- Postcode district AB11:27 company licences
- Postcode district AB24:6 company licences
- Postcode district AB16:5 company licences
- Postcode district AB15:3 company licences
- Postcode district AB25:2 company licences
- Postcode district AB14:2 company licences
- Postcode district AB10:1 company licences
New licences in 2026
4 goods licences granted in 2026 (published in the Traffic Commissioners’ Applications and Decisions) are already in the DVSA file with an operating centre in the Aberdeen council area.
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 11 of the companies here are on DVSA’s earned recognition list.
DVSA file 7 Oct 2026Source: DVSA operator licence data, file dated , read . We last checked DVSA for a newer file on 9 October 2026. How we read it
Traffic Commissioner decisions and weekly publications: Office of the Traffic Commissioner on GOV.UK. Insolvency notices: The Gazette.
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