Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in Midlothian
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the Midlothian council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
78 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Midlothian council area, as do 25 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 1,737 lorries. The largest fleet is Nwh Group Limited (184 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 78
- Goods licences
- 103 25 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 1,737
- New licences in 2026
- 4
Largest haulage operators in Midlothian
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Midlothian council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 78). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Midlothian. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nwh Group LimitedStandard National · SC335165 | 1 | 184 | |
| 2 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 1 | 152 | |
| 3 | Hillhouse Quarry Group LimitedStandard National · SC135103 | 1 | 148 | |
| 4 | Bear Scotland LimitedStandard National · SC206139 | 1 | 118 | |
| 5 | Travis Perkins PLCRestricted · 00824821 | 2 | 105 | Earned recognition |
| 6 | Tillicoultry Quarries LtdStandard National · SC016360 | 1 | 90 | |
| 7 | Flogas Britain LtdStandard National · 00993638 | 1 | 74 | |
| 8 | Johnsons Textile Services LimitedRestricted · 00464645 | 1 | 64 | |
| 9 | Midlothian Council Commercial ServicesStandard National | 4 | 64 | |
| 10 | Palletways (UK) LimitedStandard National · 02918303 | 1 | 47 | |
| 11 | The Royal Bank of Scotland PLCRestricted · SC083026 | 1 | 47 | |
| 12 | Beatsons Building Supplies LimitedStandard National · SC044008 | 1 | 41 | |
| 13 | Lightways (Contractors) LtdStandard National · SC064413 | 1 | 40 | |
| 14 | Lomond Fine Foods LimitedStandard National · SC175710 | 1 | 40 | |
| 15 | Aviagen LtdRestricted · 01610943 | 1 | 33 | |
| 16 | Holcim UK LimitedStandard National · 00245717 | 1 | 24 | |
| 17 | Jb Foods (Scotland) Ltd.Restricted · SC059981 | 1 | 24 | |
| 18 | Hanson Quarry Products Europe LtdStandard National · 00300002 | 1 | 23 | |
| 19 | UK Assistance Accident Repair Centres LimitedStandard National · 02568507 | 1 | 22 | |
| 20 | Anw Transport LtdStandard National · SC564480 | 1 | 20 | |
| 21 | Forth Resource Management LtdStandard National · SC229855 | 1 | 20 | |
| 22 | Msp Transport Ltd.Standard National · SC317187 | 1 | 20 | |
| 23 | Fairfield Dairies LimitedRestricted · SC208098 | 1 | 19 | |
| 24 | Loop Recycling LimitedRestricted · SC630454 | 1 | 18 | |
| 25 | Selwood Group LtdRestricted · 02923602 | 1 | 17 |
Plus 25 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Midlothian
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); 63% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 4.
- Restricted goods54 52%
- Standard National goods44 43%
- Standard International goods5 5%
- 1 lorries:21 licences
- 2 lorries:14 licences
- 3–5 lorries:30 licences
- 6–10 lorries:10 licences
- 11–25 lorries:13 licences
- 26–50 lorries:6 licences
- 51–100 lorries:4 licences
- 100+ lorries:5 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Midlothian.
- Postcode district EH20:33 company licences
- Postcode district EH22:19 company licences
- Postcode district EH19:11 company licences
- Postcode district EH26:7 company licences
- Postcode district EH23:4 company licences
- Postcode district EH24:3 company licences
- Postcode district EH25:3 company licences
- Postcode district EH37:2 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 Midlothian council area.
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 1 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 8 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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