The Traffic Commissioners' operator licence register is one of the most useful free lead lists in the country. This tool reads the official DVSA files from data.gov.uk — eight regional CSVs, updated around the 7th of each month — and returns about 69,000 current licences as one row per licence, with fleet size and operating-centre postcodes. Sole traders and partnerships of individuals are left out by default; director, partner and transport-manager names are never output. Northern Ireland is not in this register.
What you get
- Filter by traffic area, goods or PSV, licence type and status, fleet size and postcode prefix.
- New-licence or all-changes modes compare against the previous monthly snapshot.
- Company numbers where the operator is a registered company, with optional Companies House enrichment.
- UK GDPR-safe by default: no sole-trader rows unless you opt in, and no personal names in the output.
Who it is for
- Fleet sales — telematics, fuel cards, tyres, trucks, insurance, leasing and training.
- New-licence alerts after each monthly DVSA publication.
- Checking a carrier's licence status and fleet size before you subcontract.
A longer how-to, including the free official route, is in How to find UK haulage and fleet leads from DVSA operator licence data.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Traffic Commissioners / Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, operator licence records (data.gov.uk).