Principal area · Wales
Haulage companies in Swansea
Every goods vehicle operator licence in the DVSA file dated 7 September 2026 with an operating centre in the Swansea principal area: the largest operators, the towns, licence types, fleet sizes and new licences. Check any haulier before you book it.
201 companies and organisations hold a goods vehicle operator licence with an operating centre in the Swansea principal area, as do 39 sole traders and partnerships. Their licences authorise 3,940 lorries. The largest fleet is DHL Supply Chain Limited (225 lorries).
- Licensed companies
- 201
- Goods licences
- 240 39 sole traders
- Lorries on these licences
- 3,940
- New licences in 2026
- 5
Largest haulage operators in Swansea
Companies and organisations with an operating centre in the Swansea principal area, by lorries authorised on the licence (the top 25 of 201). A licence’s authorisation covers all its operating centres, which can be in more than one county; “sites here” counts the ones in Swansea. Earned recognition is DVSA’s compliance scheme.
| # | Operator | Sites here | Lorries | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DHL Supply Chain LimitedStandard International · 00528867 | 2 | 225 | Earned recognition |
| 2 | Travis Perkins Trading Company LtdRestricted · 00733503 | 1 | 194 | |
| 3 | City and County of SwanseaStandard National | 8 | 185 | |
| 4 | Biffa Waste Services LimitedStandard National · 00946107 | 1 | 159 | |
| 5 | Booker LtdRestricted · 00197380 | 1 | 158 | |
| 6 | Royal Mail Group LtdStandard National · 04138203 | 2 | 147 | |
| 7 | Fedex Express UK Transportation LimitedStandard National · 01628530 | 1 | 130 | |
| 8 | Dwr Cymru CyfyngedigRestricted · 02366777 | 1 | 114 | |
| 9 | Openreach LimitedRestricted · 10690039 | 1 | 103 | |
| 10 | Neath Port Talbot County Borough CouncilStandard National | 2 | 102 | |
| 11 | Dpdgroup UK LtdStandard National · 00732993 | 1 | 100 | Earned recognition |
| 12 | Bfs Group LimitedStandard National · 00239718 | 1 | 90 | Earned recognition |
| 13 | Lbs Builders Merchants LimitedStandard National · 00254946 | 2 | 89 | |
| 14 | Wincanton Holdings LimitedStandard International · 02155951 | 1 | 74 | Earned recognition |
| 15 | Peter's Food Service LtdStandard National · 03341786 | 1 | 72 | |
| 16 | NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership (Nwssp)Standard National | 2 | 63 | |
| 17 | P. Davies & Sons LimitedStandard National · 01065891 | 2 | 60 | |
| 18 | Gxo Logistics UK LimitedStandard International · SC037270 | 1 | 59 | Earned recognition |
| 19 | Balfour Beatty Group LimitedStandard National · 00101073 | 2 | 50 | |
| 20 | Travis Perkins PLCRestricted · 00824821 | 2 | 44 | Earned recognition |
| 21 | G4S Cash Solutions (UK) LimitedStandard National · 00354883 | 1 | 43 | |
| 22 | Hanson Quarry Products Europe LtdStandard National · 00300002 | 1 | 43 | |
| 23 | DHL Ecommerce UK LimitedStandard National · 00965783 | 1 | 37 | |
| 24 | M Group (Services) LimitedStandard National · 10260164 | 1 | 35 | |
| 25 | Seras Energy LtdStandard National · 07042490 | 1 | 35 |
Plus 39 licences for sole traders and partnerships: counted, not named.
Towns in Swansea
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); 56% authorise five lorries or fewer; the median is 5.
- Restricted goods124 52%
- Standard National goods85 35%
- Standard International goods31 13%
- 1 lorries:47 licences
- 2 lorries:37 licences
- 3–5 lorries:51 licences
- 6–10 lorries:34 licences
- 11–25 lorries:35 licences
- 26–50 lorries:18 licences
- 51–100 lorries:8 licences
- 100+ lorries:10 licences
Busiest postcode districts
Company goods licences with an operating centre in each postcode district of Swansea.
- Postcode district SA5:67 company licences
- Postcode district SA6:62 company licences
- Postcode district SA1:43 company licences
- Postcode district SA4:27 company licences
- Postcode district SA7:12 company licences
- Postcode district SA3:5 company licences
- Postcode district SA2:1 company licences
New licences in 2026
5 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 Swansea principal area.
Traffic areas
The Traffic Commissioner who issued each licence (the second letter of the licence number). 8 of the companies here are on DVSA’s earned recognition list.
DVSA file 7 Sep 2026Source: DVSA operator licence data, file dated , read . 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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