Principal area · Wales
Haulage companies in Cardiff
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the Cardiff principal area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
293 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Cardiff principal area, as do 38 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 5,797 lorries. The largest fleet is Owens (Road Services) Ltd (345 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 293
- Goods licences
- 331 38 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 5,797
- New licences in 2026
- 10
Largest haulage operators in Cardiff
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Cardiff principal area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 293). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Cardiff. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owens (Road Services) LtdStandard National · 01301976 | 1 | 345 | |
| 2 | DHL Supply Chain LimitedStandard International · 00528867 | 1 | 225 | Earned recognition |
| 3 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 2 | 214 | |
| 4 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 1 | 194 | |
| 5 | Cardiff County CouncilStandard National | 7 | 173 | |
| 6 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 4 | 159 | |
| 7 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 3 | 158 | |
| 8 | Royal Mail Group LtdStandard National · 04138203 | 1 | 147 | |
| 9 | Gregory Distribution (Holdings) LimitedStandard National · 06891444 | 1 | 136 | |
| 10 | Tom Prichard Contracting LimitedStandard National · 05562841 | 1 | 125 | |
| 11 | UPS LtdStandard National · 01933173 | 1 | 120 | |
| 12 | Dpdgroup UK LtdStandard National · 00732993 | 1 | 116 | Earned recognition |
| 13 | Aldi Stores LimitedStandard National · 02321869 | 2 | 110 | |
| 14 | Atlantic Recycling LimitedStandard National · 05788239 | 1 | 105 | |
| 15 | Openreach LimitedRestricted · 10690039 | 1 | 103 | |
| 16 | Turners (Soham) LtdStandard National · 00439684 | 1 | 92 | |
| 17 | Lbs Builders Merchants LimitedStandard National · 00254946 | 1 | 89 | |
| 18 | Cad Services LimitedStandard International · 04533535 | 1 | 87 | |
| 19 | Certas Energy UK LimitedStandard National · 04168225 | 3 | 85 | |
| 20 | Abf Grain Products LimitedStandard National · 00079590 | 1 | 82 | |
| 21 | Vale of Glamorgan CouncilStandard National | 1 | 75 | |
| 22 | Wincanton Holdings LimitedStandard International · 02155951 | 2 | 74 | Earned recognition |
| 23 | Johnsons Textile Services LimitedRestricted · 00464645 | 1 | 73 | |
| 24 | Neal Soil Suppliers LtdStandard National · 03368495 | 1 | 65 | |
| 25 | Breedon Trading LimitedStandard National · 00156531 | 4 | 60 |
Plus 38 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Cardiff
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
52% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 57% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 5.
- Restricted goods172 52%
- Standard National goods126 38%
- Standard International goods33 10%
- 1 lorries:52 licences
- 2 lorries:54 licences
- 3–5 lorries:83 licences
- 6–10 lorries:52 licences
- 11–25 lorries:39 licences
- 26–50 lorries:21 licences
- 51–100 lorries:15 licences
- 100+ lorries:15 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Cardiff.
- Postcode district CF3:82 company licences
- Postcode district CF10:72 company licences
- Postcode district CF11:44 company licences
- Postcode district CF24:35 company licences
- Postcode district CF15:33 company licences
- Postcode district CF14:19 company licences
- Postcode district CF23:17 company licences
- Postcode district CF5:15 company licences
New licences in 2026
10 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 Cardiff principal area.
- Cole Contractors Cardiff LimitedOG2085820 · granted in A&D 8970, 12 Aug 2026
- Drain Technology UK LimitedOG2090654 · granted in A&D 8970, 12 Aug 2026
- Openreach LimitedOG2092139 · granted in A&D 8970, 12 Aug 2026
- Top Recovery LtdOG2092443 · granted in A&D 8970, 12 Aug 2026
- Opex Logistics LtdOG2092607 · granted in A&D 8969, 5 Aug 2026
- Jadd Group LtdOG2089437 · granted in A&D 8953, 15 Apr 2026
- Dcp Exhibitions LimitedOG2086367 · granted in A&D 8947, 4 Mar 2026
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 12 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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