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Domestic road freight statistics: October 2023 to September 2024

Domestic road freight activity of Great Britain registered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) operating in the UK, between October 2023 to September 2024.

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Important note for users

International Data

As of 14 May 2025, international road freight statistics are available for this quarter.

RoRo data is used to produce the grossing factors which scale the international road haulage survey data to be representative of the total volume of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) traffic.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp RoRo census was undergoing a quality review based on discrepancies from a small number of ferry operators. This review has now concluded and international road freight statistics are now available.

Domestic Data

Data collection for road freight statistics moved from a paper to online survey midway through 2021. An investigation of the data has concluded that the paper data up to June 2021 (quarter 2), and online data from July 2021 (quarter 3) onwards, for domestic road freight statistics should not be compared.

A detailed explanation of the methodology change and the impact on the domestic road freight data can be found within the methodology note.

Headline figures

Statistics on the domestic activity of GB-registered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) operating in the UK between October 2023 and September 2024

  • 1.54 billion tonnes of goods were lifted by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK

  • 165 billion tonne kilometres of goods were moved by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK

  • 19.0 billion vehicle kilometres were travelled by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK

Statistics on HGV driver vacancies in the UK, between October 2021 and December 2024

±õ²ÔÌýquarter 4 (October to December) 2024, HGV businesses reporting HGV driver vacancies has decreased to 24% in quarter 4 2024, from 28% in quarter 3 2024.

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Updates to this page

Published 11 March 2025
Last updated 14 May 2025 show all updates
  1. Amended the name to reflect it covering domestic freight only.

  2. First published.

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