UK HGV Operator Licence Search: Haulage Companies & Fleet Leads

UK HGV Operator Licence Search: haulage companies and fleet leads with change tracking

Find UK haulage companies, HGV operators, transport companies and coach and bus operators with their fleet size. Every goods vehicle operator licence (O-licence, HGV/LGV) and PSV operator licence in Great Britain, straight from the Traffic Commissioners' Vehicle Operator Licensing (VOL) register published by DVSA on data.gov.uk. Get each operator's fleet size (vehicles and trailers authorised), operating centres and postcodes, licence type and status, and Companies House number, then track new licences and changes every month.

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What you get

• About 69,000 current licences across the 8 traffic areas, de-duplicated to one row per licence
• Fleet size: vehicles and trailers authorised, vehicles specified
• All operating centres with postcodes, plus the correspondence address
• Licence category (Goods / PSV), type (Standard National, Standard International, Restricted), status (Valid, Curtailed, Suspended), continuation date
• Company number where the operator is a registered company, with optional Companies House enrichment (status, SIC codes, incorporation date)
• New licences only or all changes (added, removed, changed status, fleet size or operating centres) against the previous monthly snapshot
• UK GDPR safe by default: sole traders and partnerships of individuals are left out unless you opt in; director, partner and transport manager names are never output

Use cases

• Fleet sales leads: telematics, fuel cards, tyres, truck dealers, insurers, leasing, driver recruitment and training
• New-licence alerts: newly licensed hauliers are actively buying vehicles and services
• Market mapping: haulage and coach capacity by region and postcode
• Compliance and KYC: check a carrier's licence status and fleet size before contracting

Input examples

Largest goods fleets in Wales and the West Midlands:

{ "trafficAreas": ["Wales", "West Midlands"], "licenceCategories": ["Goods"], "minVehicles": 50, "maxResults": 200 }

Monthly new-licence feed for Birmingham postcodes (schedule it monthly, after the 7th):

{ "mode": "newOnly", "trafficAreas": ["West Midlands"], "postcodePrefixes": ["B"] }

Output example

{
  "operatorName": "OWENS (ROAD SERVICES) LTD",
  "licenceNumber": "OG0079437",
  "licenceCategory": "Goods",
  "licenceType": "Standard National",
  "licenceStatus": "Valid",
  "operatorType": "Limited Company",
  "isIndividual": false,
  "trafficArea": "Wales",
  "operatingCentres": ["DAFEN DAFEN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LLANELLI, SA14 8QE", "..."],
  "operatingCentrePostcodes": ["SA12 7DJ", "SA14 8YP", "LL13 9XN", "NP19 4PU", "CF31 3XB"],
  "operatingCentreCount": 10,
  "correspondenceAddress": "DAFEN DAFEN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LLANELLI, SA14 8QE",
  "correspondencePostcode": "SA14 8QE",
  "vehiclesAuthorised": 345,
  "trailersAuthorised": 569,
  "vehiclesSpecified": 249,
  "hasTransportManager": true,
  "continuationDate": "2027-11-30",
  "companyNumber": "01301976",
  "changeType": null,
  "changedFields": null,
  "firstSeen": "2026-11-07",
  "snapshotDate": "2026-11-07"
}

In change modes changeType is added, removed or changed, and changedFields shows { "vehiclesAuthorised": { "from": 6, "to": 10 } } style differences. A run summary is saved as SUMMARY in the default key-value store.

How updates work

DVSA publishes the files monthly (around the 7th). Each run saves a compressed snapshot per traffic area in the named key-value store uk-hgv-operator-licences-state (last 6 kept). Change modes compare the newest file with the previous snapshot; the first run creates the baseline. firstSeen is the first file date this Actor saw the licence ("on or before" for baseline licences). The source has no trading names or licence start dates; continuationDate is the next continuation (renewal) date.

Pricing

Pay per result: $3 per 1,000 results ($0.003 per row in the dataset), plus a tiny $0.00005 per run start. No subscription and no extra charges for filters, change tracking or Companies House matching. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached, keeping everything it has already returned.

Data licence and attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Traffic Commissioners / Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, "Traffic Commissioners: goods and public service vehicle operator licence records" (data.gov.uk). Users are responsible for using any personal data in line with UK GDPR and PECR, for example for B2B marketing.