Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in North Ayrshire
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the North Ayrshire council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
117 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the North Ayrshire council area, as do 37 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 3,783 lorries. The largest fleet is W H Malcolm Ltd (568 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 117
- Goods licences
- 154 37 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 3,783
- New licences in 2026
- 1
Largest haulage operators in North Ayrshire
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the North Ayrshire council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 117). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in North Ayrshire. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W H Malcolm LtdStandard National · SC035770 | 4 | 568 | |
| 2 | Scottish WaterStandard National | 1 | 468 | |
| 3 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 2 | 384 | |
| 4 | McPherson LtdStandard International · SC218508 | 2 | 300 | Earned recognition |
| 5 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 1 | 173 | |
| 6 | Certas Energy UK LimitedStandard National · 04168225 | 1 | 167 | |
| 7 | Enva Scotland LimitedStandard National · SC057052 | 2 | 164 | |
| 8 | Hillhouse Quarry Group LimitedStandard National · SC135103 | 1 | 148 | |
| 9 | M K M Building Supplies LtdRestricted · 03100815 | 1 | 115 | |
| 10 | North Ayrshire CouncilStandard National | 14 | 102 | |
| 11 | Stevenson Bros.(Avonbridge)limitedStandard National · SC060051 | 1 | 95 | |
| 12 | Dundas Transport LtdStandard International · SC675902 | 1 | 78 | |
| 13 | Flogas Britain LtdStandard National · 00993638 | 1 | 74 | |
| 14 | Browns Manufacturing LimitedStandard International · SC105710 | 1 | 64 | |
| 15 | Maxi Group LtdStandard International · SC081671 | 1 | 52 | |
| 16 | Scotlee Transport Services LtdStandard International · SC064092 | 1 | 40 | |
| 17 | Forsyth of Denny LimitedStandard International · SC105626 | 1 | 36 | |
| 18 | Alex Smith Metals LtdStandard National · SC048199 | 1 | 30 | |
| 19 | Thomas A Barr LtdStandard National · SC305828 | 1 | 30 | |
| 20 | City Plumbing Supplies Holdings LimitedRestricted · 02489546 | 1 | 27 | |
| 21 | John Thomson Construction LtdStandard National · SC071327 | 2 | 26 | |
| 22 | Arran Haulage Services LtdStandard National · SC109578 | 3 | 25 | |
| 23 | Burton Roofing Merchants LtdRestricted · 01713728 | 1 | 22 | |
| 24 | Stewart Shaw Holdings LtdRestricted · SC080687 | 1 | 20 | |
| 25 | Filtec Water Services LtdStandard National · SC156958 | 1 | 15 |
Plus 37 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in North Ayrshire
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); 63% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 4.
- Restricted goods76 49%
- Standard National goods55 36%
- Standard International goods23 15%
- 1 lorries:28 licences
- 2 lorries:30 licences
- 3–5 lorries:39 licences
- 6–10 lorries:22 licences
- 11–25 lorries:13 licences
- 26–50 lorries:7 licences
- 51–100 lorries:5 licences
- 100+ lorries:10 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of North Ayrshire.
- Postcode district KA11:33 company licences
- Postcode district KA15:22 company licences
- Postcode district KA12:19 company licences
- Postcode district KA24:13 company licences
- Postcode district KA27:11 company licences
- Postcode district KA14:8 company licences
- Postcode district KA13:6 company licences
- Postcode district KA20:5 company licences
- Postcode district KA22:5 company licences
- Postcode district KA30:5 company licences
New licences in 2026
1 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 North Ayrshire 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 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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