Road freight statistics: April 2023 to March 2024
Road freight activity of UK registered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) operating in the UK, between April 2023 to March 2024.
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Important note for users
International data
International road freight statistics are not available this quarter.
Data from the separate Road goods travelling to Europe (RoRo) census is used to convert the surveys of businesses that operate international road goods vehicles into nationally representative statistics for international road freight.
The RoRo census is currently undergoing a quality review based on discrepancies from a small number of ferry operators, and international road freight statistics will be available once this review has been completed.
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 April 2023 and March 2024
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1.57 billion tonnes of goods were lifted by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK
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169 billion tonne kilometres of goods were moved by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK
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19.4 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 June 2024
In quarter 2 (April to June) 2024:
- HGV businesses reporting HGV driver vacancies has increased to 24% in quarter 2 2024, from 19% in quarter 1 2024
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