Council area · Scotland
Haulage companies in South Ayrshire
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 October 2026 with an operating centre in the South Ayrshire council area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
65 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the South Ayrshire council area, as do 24 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 2,735 lorries. The largest fleet is Royal Mail Group Ltd (571 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 65
- Goods licences
- 89 24 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 2,735
- New licences in 2026
- 1
Largest haulage operators in South Ayrshire
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the South Ayrshire council area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 65). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in South Ayrshire. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Mail Group LtdStandard National · 04138203 | 1 | 571 | |
| 2 | Stark Building Materials UK LimitedRestricted · 01647362 | 2 | 384 | |
| 3 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 1 | 173 | |
| 4 | Arnold Clark Automobiles LtdStandard National · SC036386 | 1 | 162 | |
| 5 | East Ayrshire CouncilStandard National | 1 | 156 | |
| 6 | Hillhouse Quarry Group LimitedStandard National · SC135103 | 1 | 148 | |
| 7 | Carntyne Transport Co LtdStandard International · SC032077 | 1 | 121 | |
| 8 | T French & Son LtdStandard National · SC292873 | 1 | 95 | |
| 9 | Bullet Express LtdStandard National · SC203638 | 1 | 68 | |
| 10 | Calor Gas LimitedStandard National · 00303703 | 1 | 68 | |
| 11 | Browns Manufacturing LimitedStandard International · SC105710 | 1 | 64 | |
| 12 | South Ayrshire CouncilStandard National | 5 | 61 | |
| 13 | Johnston Oils LtdStandard National · SC097681 | 1 | 60 | |
| 14 | The Royal Bank of Scotland PLCRestricted · SC083026 | 1 | 47 | |
| 15 | Wolseley UK LimitedStandard National · 00636445 | 1 | 46 | Earned recognition |
| 16 | William Wilson LtdRestricted · SC014691 | 1 | 41 | |
| 17 | Mgm Timber (Scotland) LimitedRestricted · SC129921 | 1 | 37 | |
| 18 | Alex Smith Metals LtdStandard National · SC048199 | 2 | 30 | |
| 19 | Abbey Logistics Group LimitedStandard National · 02484251 | 1 | 29 | |
| 20 | Carrs Billington Agriculture (Sales) LtdStandard National · 00189740 | 1 | 26 | |
| 21 | William Grant & Sons Distillers LtdRestricted · SC134248 | 1 | 25 | |
| 22 | Centregreat LtdRestricted · 01169341 | 1 | 21 | |
| 23 | Jim Wilmer & Sons Timber Harvesting Ltd.Restricted · SC381371 | 1 | 16 | |
| 24 | P & C Hamilton LtdStandard International · SC298329 | 1 | 16 | |
| 25 | 3B Construction LtdStandard International · 04756850 | 1 | 15 |
Plus 24 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in South Ayrshire
Town pages list every company licence with an operating centre there. Number = company licences.
Licence types and fleet sizes
51% of goods licences here are restricted (the holder’s own goods only); 57% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 4.
- Restricted goods45 51%
- Standard National goods29 33%
- Standard International goods15 17%
- 1 lorries:13 licences
- 2 lorries:19 licences
- 3–5 lorries:19 licences
- 6–10 lorries:8 licences
- 11–25 lorries:9 licences
- 26–50 lorries:8 licences
- 51–100 lorries:6 licences
- 100+ lorries:7 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of South Ayrshire.
- Postcode district KA8:25 company licences
- Postcode district KA26:17 company licences
- Postcode district KA9:13 company licences
- Postcode district KA19:9 company licences
- Postcode district KA10:3 company licences
- Postcode district KA7:2 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 South 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 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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