UK Operator Licences - 69K HGV & PSV Licences (DVSA)

Every goods-vehicle and public-service-vehicle operator licence in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales - Northern Ireland publishes separately): 69,027 licences across the eight traffic areas - 63,956 goods-vehicle (O-licence) and 5,071 public-service-vehicle (P-licence) - from the Traffic Commissioners / DVSA files dated 7 October 2026 (snapshot 1 November 2026). The source CSV carries one row per licence x transport manager/director (179,401 rows); this actor publishes one record per licence.

54,402 licences are held by companies and other organisations, with the operator name, correspondence address, postcode and - where the register publishes one - the company/registered-society number (53,975 licences; the 306 rows that carried the placeholder 00000000 are published blank). The remaining 14,625 sole-trader, partnership and other unincorporated licences keep their licence number, traffic area, vehicle class, licence type, fleet counts and dates, but the operator name, addresses and company number are withheld because those can be personal names and home addresses (nameRedacted: "Y").

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you receive - the whole register stays searchable, you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What you get per licence

field	meaning
operatorName, operatorType, nameRedacted	operator and legal form; name, addresses and company number are blank on redacted licences (operatorType is always present)
vehicleClass	Goods (O-licence) or PSV (P-licence for buses and coaches)
companyNumber	Companies House or registered-society number - 8-digit, two-letter-prefix (SC/OC/NI/RC...) and IP/SP society numbers; placeholders and malformed values are published blank
licenceNumber, licenceType	licence ID and Restricted / Standard National / Standard International
licenceStatus	Valid, Curtailed or Suspended
region	traffic area: East of England, West of England, North East of England, North West of England, West Midlands, London and the South East of England, Scotland, Wales
correspondenceAddress, operatingCentreAddress, postcode, postcodeArea	location (published operators only)
vehiclesAuthorised, trailersAuthorised	the licence's authorised fleet
vehiclesSpecified, trailersSpecified	vehicles currently specified on the licence
fleetBand	0, 1-2, 3-5, 6-10, 11-25, 26-50, 51-100, 101+
continuationDate	next licence continuation date
refreshedDate	snapshot date

Search it

• Operator - name="TAYLOR" (substring, published operators only).
• Licence - licenceNumber="OF2080358" (exact).
• Company - companyNumber="09541002" (exact; joins UK Companies House).
• Traffic area - region="Scotland".
• Vehicle class - vehicleClass="PSV" (buses and coaches), "Goods".
• Licence type - licenceType="Standard International" (hire and reward, cross-border).
• Status - status="Curtailed", "Suspended".
• Postcode - postcode="LE14" (prefix; spaces ignored).
• Fleet size - minVehicles=100 for the largest carriers.

Example inputs

A major fleet

{ "minVehicles": 100, "licenceType": "Standard International", "maxResults": 50 }

One company's licences

{ "companyNumber": "09541002", "maxResults": 50 }

Every curtailed licence in Scotland

{ "region": "Scotland", "status": "Curtailed", "maxResults": 50 }

Bus and coach operators in Scotland

{ "vehicleClass": "PSV", "region": "Scotland", "maxResults": 50 }

Page through the results

A search returns at most 5,000 records per run and every row carries totalMatched, the full number of matches in the register. The result order is stable (traffic area, then source file order), so offset pages through the whole match set:

{ "region": "Scotland", "maxResults": 5000, "offset": 5000 }

Aggregate it

Set groupBy for a whole-register rollup, or add filters for a scoped one (groupBy with filters routes to aggregate automatically):

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "fleetBand" }

groupBy = region (default), vehicleClass, licenceType, operatorType, status, fleetBand or postcodeArea. Every row carries groupKey, groupCount, groupBy and totalMatched. postcodeArea is (not stated) for the 14,634 name-redacted licences whose postcode is withheld.

The default (empty) run returns the traffic-area rollup.

Source and licence

Traffic Commissioners / Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency operator licence records, published through data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial reuse with attribution. Transport managers and directors/partners are never read; sole-trader and partnership names and addresses are withheld.

Source: Traffic Commissioners operator licence records.