Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in East Ayrshire
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the East Ayrshire council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
172 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the East Ayrshire council area, as do 63 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 5,513 lorries. The largest fleet is Royal Mail Group Ltd (571 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 172
- Goods licences
- 235 63 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 5,513
- New licences in 2026
- 9
Largest haulage operators in East Ayrshire
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the East Ayrshire council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 172). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in East Ayrshire. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Mail Group LtdStandard National · 04138203 | 1 | 571 | |
| 2 | W H Malcolm LtdStandard National · SC035770 | 1 | 568 | |
| 3 | Scottish WaterStandard National | 1 | 468 | |
| 4 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 1 | 384 | |
| 5 | Breedon Trading LimitedStandard National · 00156531 | 2 | 306 | |
| 6 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 1 | 182 | |
| 7 | Enva Scotland LimitedStandard National · SC057052 | 1 | 164 | |
| 8 | Arnold Clark Automobiles LtdStandard National · SC036386 | 1 | 162 | |
| 9 | East Ayrshire CouncilStandard National | 11 | 156 | |
| 10 | Amey Ow LimitedStandard National · 01922327 | 1 | 148 | |
| 11 | T P Niven LimitedStandard National · SC386352 | 1 | 121 | |
| 12 | M K M Building Supplies LtdRestricted · 03100815 | 1 | 115 | |
| 13 | Scotia Gas Networks LimitedRestricted · 04958135 | 1 | 115 | |
| 14 | Leiths (Scotland) LtdStandard National · SC062692 | 1 | 110 | |
| 15 | Stevenson Bros.(Avonbridge)limitedStandard National · SC060051 | 1 | 95 | |
| 16 | T French & Son LtdStandard National · SC292873 | 1 | 95 | |
| 17 | Veolia Es (UK) LimitedStandard National · 02481991 | 1 | 90 | |
| 18 | Gap Group LtdStandard National · 00198823 | 2 | 77 | |
| 19 | Sunbelt Rentals LimitedRestricted · 00444569 | 1 | 71 | |
| 20 | Scottish Power UK PLCRestricted · SC117120 | 2 | 50 | |
| 21 | Speedy Asset Services LtdRestricted · 06847930 | 1 | 46 | Earned recognition |
| 22 | Wolseley UK LimitedStandard National · 00636445 | 1 | 46 | Earned recognition |
| 23 | Advance Quarries LtdStandard National · SC409106 | 2 | 40 | |
| 24 | Bensonsforbedsretail LtdStandard National · 12528962 | 1 | 40 | |
| 25 | Billy Bowie Special Projects LtdStandard National · SC194894 | 2 | 40 |
Plus 63 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in East Ayrshire
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); 58% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 4.
- Standard National goods107 46%
- Restricted goods106 45%
- Standard International goods22 9%
- 1 lorries:35 licences
- 2 lorries:52 licences
- 3–5 lorries:50 licences
- 6–10 lorries:43 licences
- 11–25 lorries:22 licences
- 26–50 lorries:14 licences
- 51–100 lorries:5 licences
- 100+ lorries:14 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of East Ayrshire.
- Postcode district KA3:47 company licences
- Postcode district KA1:42 company licences
- Postcode district KA6:27 company licences
- Postcode district KA2:26 company licences
- Postcode district KA18:22 company licences
- Postcode district KA5:13 company licences
- Postcode district KA4:4 company licences
- Postcode district KA17:2 company licences
- Postcode district KA16:1 company licences
New licences in 2026
9 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 East Ayrshire council area.
- Smartlock Scaffolding LtdOM2092026 · granted in A&D 2488, 14 Sep 2026
- Sge Scaffolding LimitedOM2088732 · granted in A&D 2478, 6 Jul 2026
- Babes Horses LtdOM2089845 · granted in A&D 2472, 25 May 2026
- Craig-Leigh Transport LtdOM2089635 · granted in A&D 2469, 4 May 2026
- A and H Dick Plant LtdOM2089653 · granted in A&D 2469, 4 May 2026
- Dg Gillies Transport LimitedOM2086826 · granted in A&D 2456, 2 Feb 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 11 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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