Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in Aberdeenshire
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the Aberdeenshire council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
307 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Aberdeenshire council area, as do 169 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 6,851 lorries. The largest fleet is Gregory Distribution (Holdings) Limited (559 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 307
- Goods licences
- 476 169 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 6,851
- New licences in 2026
- 14
Largest haulage operators in Aberdeenshire
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Aberdeenshire council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 307). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Aberdeenshire. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gregory Distribution (Holdings) LimitedStandard National · 06891444 | 3 | 559 | |
| 2 | Scottish WaterStandard National | 2 | 468 | |
| 3 | Breedon Trading LimitedStandard National · 00156531 | 2 | 306 | |
| 4 | Openreach LimitedRestricted · 10690039 | 2 | 215 | |
| 5 | Aberdeenshire CouncilStandard National | 17 | 211 | |
| 6 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 1 | 182 | |
| 7 | Certas Energy UK LimitedStandard National · 04168225 | 1 | 167 | |
| 8 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 4 | 152 | |
| 9 | Amey Ow LimitedStandard National · 01922327 | 1 | 148 | |
| 10 | Grahams the Family Dairy Group LimitedRestricted · SC317473 | 1 | 148 | |
| 11 | Asco UK LtdStandard National · SC029934 | 7 | 145 | |
| 12 | Huws Gray LtdRestricted · 02506633 | 1 | 129 | |
| 13 | Leiths (Scotland) LtdStandard National · SC062692 | 1 | 110 | |
| 14 | Sse PLCRestricted · SC117119 | 4 | 109 | |
| 15 | Tennent Caledonian Breweries Wholesale LimitedStandard National · SC081527 | 1 | 106 | |
| 16 | Dundas Transport LtdStandard International · SC675902 | 1 | 78 | |
| 17 | Peterson (United Kingdom) LtdStandard International · 03311077 | 3 | 77 | |
| 18 | Flogas Britain LtdStandard National · 00993638 | 1 | 74 | |
| 19 | Oilfast LimitedStandard National · SC694847 | 1 | 71 | |
| 20 | Transpan (Scotland) LimitedStandard National · SC124530 | 4 | 71 | |
| 21 | Highland Fuels LimitedStandard National · SC032343 | 1 | 60 | |
| 22 | Johnston Oils LtdStandard National · SC097681 | 1 | 60 | |
| 23 | Seafield Park Transport LtdStandard National · SC316520 | 1 | 60 | |
| 24 | McIntosh Plant Hire (Aberdeen) LtdStandard National · SC060810 | 1 | 55 | |
| 25 | Oxalis Logistics UK LimitedStandard National · 01164085 | 2 | 54 | Earned recognition |
Plus 169 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Aberdeenshire
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
45% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 67% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 3.
- Restricted goods216 45%
- Standard National goods215 45%
- Standard International goods45 9%
- 1 lorries:114 licences
- 2 lorries:91 licences
- 3–5 lorries:112 licences
- 6–10 lorries:51 licences
- 11–25 lorries:54 licences
- 26–50 lorries:29 licences
- 51–100 lorries:10 licences
- 100+ lorries:15 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Aberdeenshire.
- Postcode district AB51:69 company licences
- Postcode district AB42:53 company licences
- Postcode district AB43:38 company licences
- Postcode district AB53:28 company licences
- Postcode district AB54:22 company licences
- Postcode district AB30:22 company licences
- Postcode district AB45:20 company licences
- Postcode district AB41:20 company licences
- Postcode district AB31:14 company licences
- Postcode district AB32:14 company licences
New licences in 2026
14 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 Aberdeenshire council area.
- Dalgarno Supplies LimitedOM2091729 · granted in A&D 2489, 21 Sep 2026
- Openreach LimitedOM2092144 · granted in A&D 2483, 10 Aug 2026
- Daniel A J LimitedOM2091959 · granted in A&D 2480, 20 Jul 2026
- Whitehill Storage Company LimitedOM2091873 · granted in A&D 2479, 13 Jul 2026
- A A Carrots LimitedOM2090942 · granted in A&D 2478, 6 Jul 2026
- Bandley Store LtdOM2090631 · granted in A&D 2473, 1 Jun 2026
- Grc Aquatech LtdOM2089944 · granted in A&D 2470, 11 May 2026
- SD Digger hire LtdOM2088761 · granted in A&D 2468, 27 Apr 2026
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 4 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 10 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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