Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in Glasgow
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the Glasgow council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
345 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Glasgow council area, as do 25 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 10,383 lorries. The largest fleet is Royal Mail Group Ltd (571 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 345
- Goods licences
- 370 25 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 10,383
- New licences in 2026
- 4
Largest haulage operators in Glasgow
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Glasgow council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 345). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Glasgow. 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 | 2 | 568 | |
| 3 | Gregory Distribution (Holdings) LimitedStandard National · 06891444 | 1 | 559 | |
| 4 | Wincanton Holdings LimitedStandard International · 02155951 | 2 | 447 | Earned recognition |
| 5 | Glasgow City CouncilStandard National | 17 | 400 | |
| 6 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 2 | 384 | |
| 7 | Gxo Logistics UK LimitedStandard International · SC037270 | 3 | 353 | Earned recognition |
| 8 | Openreach LimitedRestricted · 10690039 | 1 | 215 | |
| 9 | Nwh Group LimitedStandard National · SC335165 | 1 | 184 | |
| 10 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 2 | 182 | |
| 11 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 2 | 173 | |
| 12 | G4S Cash Solutions (UK) LimitedStandard National · 00354883 | 1 | 163 | |
| 13 | Arnold Clark Automobiles LtdStandard National · SC036386 | 3 | 162 | |
| 14 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 2 | 152 | |
| 15 | Amey Ow LimitedStandard National · 01922327 | 1 | 148 | |
| 16 | Grahams the Family Dairy Group LimitedRestricted · SC317473 | 1 | 148 | |
| 17 | Hillhouse Quarry Group LimitedStandard National · SC135103 | 1 | 148 | |
| 18 | Dpdgroup UK LtdStandard National · 00732993 | 1 | 134 | Earned recognition |
| 19 | Patersons of Greenoakhill LtdStandard National · SC054793 | 2 | 132 | |
| 20 | Huws Gray LtdRestricted · 02506633 | 2 | 129 | |
| 21 | Carntyne Transport Co LtdStandard International · SC032077 | 2 | 121 | |
| 22 | Abf Grain Products LimitedStandard National · 00079590 | 1 | 120 | |
| 23 | Muller UK & Ireland Group LLPStandard National · OC384928 | 1 | 120 | |
| 24 | M K M Building Supplies LtdRestricted · 03100815 | 1 | 115 | |
| 25 | Scotia Gas Networks LimitedRestricted · 04958135 | 2 | 115 |
Plus 25 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Glasgow
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
55% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 47% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 6.
- Restricted goods203 55%
- Standard National goods139 38%
- Standard International goods28 8%
- 1 lorries:51 licences
- 2 lorries:46 licences
- 3–5 lorries:77 licences
- 6–10 lorries:58 licences
- 11–25 lorries:63 licences
- 26–50 lorries:34 licences
- 51–100 lorries:15 licences
- 100+ lorries:26 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Glasgow.
- Postcode district G32:64 company licences
- Postcode district G51:46 company licences
- Postcode district G52:42 company licences
- Postcode district G21:29 company licences
- Postcode district G33:28 company licences
- Postcode district G14:24 company licences
- Postcode district G40:23 company licences
- Postcode district G41:23 company licences
- Postcode district G31:22 company licences
- Postcode district G22:21 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 Glasgow council area.
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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