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Open data downloads
The data behind HaulierScope’s reports and lists, as plain CSV (UTF-8, comma-separated, one header row). Each file is rebuilt from the newest source we hold when you download it.
29 CSV files, free to download and reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Companies and organisations are named; sole traders and partnerships appear only as counts.
- Datasets
- 9
- Monthly files
- 20
- DVSA file
- 7 September 2026
- Licence
- OGL v3.0
The register
From the current DVSA operator licence file.
- company-licences.csv
Operator licences held by companies and organisations
Every licence in the current DVSA file held by a company or other organisation: type, status, vehicles and trailers authorised, traffic area and continuation date. Sole traders, partnerships and withheld records are left out.
13 columns
- licence_number
- Operator licence number
- operator_name
- Company or organisation name in the DVSA file
- company_number
- Companies House number (blank for organisations without one)
- holder_type
- company or other (public body, charity…)
- category
- goods or psv
- licence_type
- Restricted, Standard National, Standard International or Special Restricted
- status
- valid, curtailed, suspended, or unmapped
- vehicles_authorised
- Vehicles authorised
- trailers_authorised
- Trailers authorised
- traffic_area
- Traffic area that issued the licence
- continuation_date
- Continuation date (not an expiry date)
- operating_centres
- Number of operating centres
- file_date
- Date of the DVSA file
- traffic-area-stats.csv
Licences and vehicles by traffic area
Per traffic area: licences, vehicles authorised, and licences by category and type in the current DVSA file (every holder, as counts).
6 columns
- traffic_area
- Traffic area
- category
- goods or psv
- licence_type
- Licence type
- licences
- Licences in the DVSA file
- vehicles_authorised
- Vehicles authorised on them
- file_date
- Date of the DVSA file
Traffic Commissioner notices and decisions
From the weekly Applications and Decisions, Notices and Proceedings, and the decisions on GOV.UK.
- new-operator-licences.csv
New operator licences granted
Every new goods and PSV operator licence the Traffic Commissioners published as granted, since January 2026, companies and organisations only. One row per grant.
12 columns
- licence_number
- Operator licence number as printed in the notice
- operator_name
- Company or organisation name (sole traders and partnerships are never included)
- company_number
- Companies House number, when the licence is in the DVSA file
- category
- goods or psv
- licence_class
- R, SN, SI or SR as printed
- traffic_area
- Traffic area that published the notice
- published_as
- The publication's own section heading
- effective_date
- With-effect-from date when printed, else the publication date
- publication
- Applications and Decisions (A&D) or Notices and Proceedings (N&P)
- issue_number
- Issue number printed on the publication
- published_date
- Publication date
- source_url
- The GOV.UK PDF
- tc-decisions.csv
Traffic Commissioner decisions about companies
Written regulatory decisions of the Traffic Commissioners that name only companies or organisations: outcome, dates, appeal status, licences and the GOV.UK link.
9 columns
- operator_name
- Company or organisation
- company_number
- Companies House number, when the licence is in the DVSA file
- outcome
- GOV.UK outcome label
- decision_date
- Date of the written decision
- published_date
- First published on GOV.UK
- appeal_status
- Appeal or stay recorded on GOV.UK
- traffic_area
- Traffic Commissioner region
- licence_numbers
- Licences in the decision heading (space-separated)
- source_url
- The decision on GOV.UK (or the GOV.UK finder searched by licence number)
Rankings
Biggest operators by vehicles authorised.
- biggest-haulage-companies.csv
Biggest haulage companies (top 100)
The 100 companies with the most lorries authorised on standard goods vehicle operator licences in Great Britain.
10 columns
- rank
- Rank by vehicles authorised (ties share a rank)
- company_name
- Company name in the DVSA file
- company_number
- Companies House number
- vehicles_authorised
- Vehicles authorised on the licences in scope
- trailers_authorised
- Trailers authorised on the licences in scope
- licences
- Licences in scope
- share_of_gb_total
- Share of every vehicle authorised in scope in Great Britain (0-1)
- main_traffic_area
- Traffic area with most of the vehicles
- earned_recognition
- On DVSA's earned recognition list
- companies_house_status
- Companies House status (blank when the name does not match)
- biggest-coach-and-bus-operators.csv
Biggest coach and bus operators (top 100)
The 100 companies with the most vehicles authorised on PSV operator licences in Great Britain.
10 columns
- rank
- Rank by vehicles authorised (ties share a rank)
- company_name
- Company name in the DVSA file
- company_number
- Companies House number
- vehicles_authorised
- Vehicles authorised on the licences in scope
- trailers_authorised
- Trailers authorised on the licences in scope
- licences
- Licences in scope
- share_of_gb_total
- Share of every vehicle authorised in scope in Great Britain (0-1)
- main_traffic_area
- Traffic area with most of the vehicles
- earned_recognition
- On DVSA's earned recognition list
- companies_house_status
- Companies House status (blank when the name does not match)
Geography
Counties and council areas, from the ONS Postcode Directory join.
- hauliers-by-county.csv
Goods vehicle operator licences by county
Goods vehicle operator licences by county, from the DVSA operator licence file and the ONS Postcode Directory (each operating centre's postcode district placed in its county). A licence with centres in two counties counts in both.
9 columns
- county_slug
- Page slug (/hauliers/{slug}, /coach-operators/{slug})
- county
- Ceremonial county (England), principal area (Wales) or council area (Scotland)
- country
- England, Scotland or Wales
- company_licences
- Present licences of companies and organisations with an operating centre in the county
- companies
- Distinct companies and organisations among them
- sole_trader_and_partnership_licences
- Licences of sole traders and partnerships (counted, never named)
- withheld_licences
- Licences withheld at the holder's request
- vehicles_authorised
- Vehicles authorised on every licence counted (a licence's whole authorisation)
- page_indexed
- Whether the county page is indexed for search (threshold met)
- coach-operators-by-county.csv
PSV (bus and coach) operator licences by county
PSV (bus and coach) operator licences by county, from the DVSA operator licence file and the ONS Postcode Directory (each operating centre's postcode district placed in its county). A licence with centres in two counties counts in both.
9 columns
- county_slug
- Page slug (/hauliers/{slug}, /coach-operators/{slug})
- county
- Ceremonial county (England), principal area (Wales) or council area (Scotland)
- country
- England, Scotland or Wales
- company_licences
- Present licences of companies and organisations with an operating centre in the county
- companies
- Distinct companies and organisations among them
- sole_trader_and_partnership_licences
- Licences of sole traders and partnerships (counted, never named)
- withheld_licences
- Licences withheld at the holder's request
- vehicles_authorised
- Vehicles authorised on every licence counted (a licence's whole authorisation)
- page_indexed
- Whether the county page is indexed for search (threshold met)
Reports
The figures behind our data reports.
- state-of-the-register-2026.csv
State of the GB operator licence register 2026: every figure
The figures behind the 2026 report in long format: register totals, licence types, fleet bands, holders and Companies House status from the current files, and monthly and per-area notice flows for January to September 2026. Aggregates only.
5 columns
- section
- register, fleet, holder, status, flow, area, companies_house, earned_recognition
- measure
- What is counted
- dimension
- Breakdown value (licence type, band, month, traffic area…); blank for totals
- value
- The count
- as_of
- Date of the source file, or the report period
Monthly files
One file per publication month, same 12 columns as the notices datasets.
New operator licences granted
- October 2026 62 rows
- September 2026 353 rows
- August 2026 373 rows
- July 2026 415 rows
- June 2026 380 rows
- May 2026 326 rows
- April 2026 363 rows
- March 2026 377 rows
- February 2026 357 rows
- January 2026 265 rows
Licences revoked, surrendered or terminated
- October 2026 29 rows
- September 2026 327 rows
- August 2026 315 rows
- July 2026 332 rows
- June 2026 353 rows
- May 2026 378 rows
- April 2026 366 rows
- March 2026 372 rows
- February 2026 417 rows
- January 2026 367 rows
Licence and attribution
The files are derived from public-sector information and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. When you reuse them, include: “Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: HaulierScope, from DVSA and Traffic Commissioner data”, and link to the page the data came from.
Privacy: director, partner and transport manager names and correspondence addresses never enter our data. Sole traders and partnerships are never named in any file, because their operator name is usually a person’s name. Records withheld at the holder’s request are left out. See the privacy notice and methodology.
Need the data through an API instead? The JSON API and MCP server are free to use.
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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.