Principal area · Wales
Haulage companies in Carmarthenshire
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the Carmarthenshire principal area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
292 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Carmarthenshire principal area, as do 166 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 5,240 lorries. The largest fleet is Owens (Road Services) Ltd (345 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 292
- Goods licences
- 458 166 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 5,240
- New licences in 2026
- 17
Largest haulage operators in Carmarthenshire
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Carmarthenshire principal area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 292). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Carmarthenshire. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owens (Road Services) LtdStandard National · 01301976 | 3 | 345 | |
| 2 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 1 | 214 | |
| 3 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 1 | 194 | |
| 4 | Castell Howell Foods LtdStandard National · 02269053 | 3 | 180 | |
| 5 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 1 | 159 | |
| 6 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 1 | 158 | |
| 7 | Carmarthenshire County CouncilStandard National | 10 | 154 | |
| 8 | Mds Distribution LimitedStandard International · 03478912 | 1 | 150 | |
| 9 | Veolia Es (UK) LimitedStandard National · 02481991 | 1 | 143 | |
| 10 | Gregory Distribution (Holdings) LimitedStandard National · 06891444 | 2 | 136 | |
| 11 | Openreach LimitedRestricted · 10690039 | 2 | 103 | |
| 12 | Wynnstay Group P.L.C.Standard National · 02704051 | 2 | 94 | |
| 13 | Lbs Builders Merchants LimitedStandard National · 00254946 | 4 | 89 | |
| 14 | Certas Energy UK LimitedStandard National · 04168225 | 1 | 85 | |
| 15 | Wincanton Holdings LimitedStandard International · 02155951 | 1 | 74 | Earned recognition |
| 16 | NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership (Nwssp)Standard National | 1 | 63 | |
| 17 | Brace's Bakery LtdRestricted · 01223575 | 1 | 62 | |
| 18 | Harlech Foodservice LtdStandard National · 01413059 | 1 | 56 | |
| 19 | A E Gough & Sons LtdStandard International · 09353870 | 1 | 55 | |
| 20 | Dyfed Steels LtdRestricted · 01287461 | 1 | 55 | |
| 21 | Network Rail Infrastructure LtdRestricted · 02904587 | 2 | 55 | |
| 22 | Balfour Beatty Group LimitedStandard National · 00101073 | 2 | 50 | |
| 23 | Oil 4 Wales LimitedStandard National · 07318706 | 1 | 50 | |
| 24 | Dx Network Services LimitedStandard National · 05026914 | 1 | 49 | |
| 25 | Clynderwen & Cardiganshire Farmers LtdRestricted | 1 | 43 |
Plus 166 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Carmarthenshire
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
50% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 70% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 3.
- Restricted goods228 50%
- Standard National goods179 39%
- Standard International goods51 11%
- 1 lorries:95 licences
- 2 lorries:98 licences
- 3–5 lorries:127 licences
- 6–10 lorries:59 licences
- 11–25 lorries:38 licences
- 26–50 lorries:20 licences
- 51–100 lorries:10 licences
- 100+ lorries:11 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Carmarthenshire.
- Postcode district SA14:60 company licences
- Postcode district SA18:47 company licences
- Postcode district SA31:43 company licences
- Postcode district SA33:40 company licences
- Postcode district SA32:34 company licences
- Postcode district SA15:22 company licences
- Postcode district SA19:16 company licences
- Postcode district SA34:14 company licences
- Postcode district SA20:11 company licences
- Postcode district SA38:10 company licences
New licences in 2026
17 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 Carmarthenshire principal area.
- Smart Moovz LtdOG2091063 · granted in A&D 8973, 2 Sep 2026
- Arwel's Agri Services LtdOG2091880 · granted in A&D 8971, 19 Aug 2026
- Smith J LimitedOG2093046 · granted in A&D 8971, 19 Aug 2026
- Openreach LimitedOG2092139 · granted in A&D 8970, 12 Aug 2026
- Go Ahead Traffic Management LtdOG2090941 · granted in A&D 8964, 1 Jul 2026
- Ams Commercials LimitedOG2088256 · granted in A&D 8963, 24 Jun 2026
- Jre Excavation Fencing Groundworks LtdOG2088173 · granted in A&D 8958, 20 May 2026
- Hefin Thomas Plant and Tar LimitedOG2088969 · granted in A&D 8958, 20 May 2026
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 2 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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