County · England
Haulage companies in Merseyside
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in Merseyside: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
1,007 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in Merseyside, as do 114 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 19,396 lorries. The largest fleet is DHL Supply Chain Limited (836 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 1,007
- Goods licences
- 1,121 114 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 19,396
- New licences in 2026
- 55
Largest haulage operators in Merseyside
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in Merseyside, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 1,007). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Merseyside. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DHL Supply Chain LimitedStandard International · 00528867 | 4 | 836 | Earned recognition |
| 2 | Maritime Transport LimitedStandard National · 01160595 | 2 | 430 | |
| 3 | Veolia Es (UK) LimitedStandard National · 02481991 | 2 | 414 | |
| 4 | Dpdgroup UK LtdStandard National · 00732993 | 1 | 369 | Earned recognition |
| 5 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 2 | 323 | |
| 6 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 1 | 312 | |
| 7 | Huws Gray LtdRestricted · 02506633 | 7 | 295 | |
| 8 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 3 | 293 | |
| 9 | Great Bear Distribution LtdStandard National · 02899719 | 1 | 275 | |
| 10 | Booker Direct LtdStandard National · 04004640 | 1 | 265 | |
| 11 | Bfs Group LimitedStandard National · 00239718 | 1 | 238 | Earned recognition |
| 12 | Sunbelt Rentals LimitedRestricted · 00444569 | 2 | 230 | |
| 13 | Fedex Express UK Transportation LimitedStandard National · 01628530 | 1 | 225 | |
| 14 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 3 | 222 | |
| 15 | Menzies Distribution Solutions LimitedStandard National · 03805401 | 1 | 222 | |
| 16 | United Utilities Water LimitedStandard National · 02366678 | 3 | 220 | |
| 17 | Woodside Logistics Group LimitedStandard International · NI013212 | 3 | 210 | |
| 18 | B & M Retail LimitedStandard National · 01357507 | 2 | 200 | |
| 19 | Dm Topco LimitedStandard National · 10125468 | 4 | 200 | Earned recognition |
| 20 | Liverpool City CouncilStandard National | 2 | 200 | |
| 21 | T J Morris LtdStandard National · 01505036 | 3 | 200 | Earned recognition |
| 22 | W H Bowker LtdStandard International · 00364757 | 1 | 196 | |
| 23 | Openreach LimitedRestricted · 10690039 | 1 | 189 | |
| 24 | Dx Network Services LimitedStandard National · 05026914 | 3 | 176 | |
| 25 | Suez Recycling and Recovery UK LtdStandard National · 02291198 | 1 | 160 |
Plus 114 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Merseyside
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
49% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 60% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 4.
- Restricted goods552 49%
- Standard National goods407 36%
- Standard International goods162 14%
- 1 lorries:179 licences
- 2 lorries:208 licences
- 3–5 lorries:280 licences
- 6–10 lorries:174 licences
- 11–25 lorries:143 licences
- 26–50 lorries:58 licences
- 51–100 lorries:37 licences
- 100+ lorries:42 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Merseyside.
- Postcode district L33:151 company licences
- Postcode district L20:124 company licences
- Postcode district WA11:92 company licences
- Postcode district WA9:78 company licences
- Postcode district CH41:66 company licences
- Postcode district L9:55 company licences
- Postcode district WA12:54 company licences
- Postcode district L24:49 company licences
- Postcode district L36:42 company licences
- Postcode district CH62:39 company licences
New licences in 2026
55 goods licences granted in 2026 (published in the Traffic Commissioners’ Applications and Decisions) are already in the DVSA file with an operating centre in Merseyside.
- C&S MOT Services LtdOC2089017 · granted in A&D 7176, 2 Oct 2026
- Murrays Direct Pallet ServicesOC2092150 · granted in A&D 7176, 2 Oct 2026
- J&K Truck Hire LtdOC2089274 · granted in A&D 7173, 11 Sep 2026
- Vanity Logistics LtdOC2093353 · granted in A&D 7173, 11 Sep 2026
- Bright Grid Solutions LtdOC2090761 · granted in A&D 7170, 21 Aug 2026
- Cit Logistics LtdOC2079264 · granted in A&D 7169, 14 Aug 2026
- Mlg Wagon Works LtdOC2091693 · granted in A&D 7169, 14 Aug 2026
- Exact Concrete LimitedOC2089051 · granted in A&D 7168, 7 Aug 2026
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 15 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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