Road freight statistics: 2025
Road Freight activity of Great Britain registered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) operating in the UK for 2025 and heavy goods vehicle driver vacancies in the United Kingdom for 2025.
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Headline figures
Domestic road freight statistics in the United Kingdom in 2025
In 2025:
- 1.53 billion tonnes of goods were lifted by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK
- 162 billion tonne kilometres of goods were moved by GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK
- 19.0 billion vehicle kilometres were travelled GB-registered HGVs operating in the UK
Heavy goods vehicle driver vacancies in the United Kingdom in 2025
In 2025:
- The proportion of HGV businesses reporting HGV driver vacancies has increased to 26% in quarter 4 2025, from 24% in quarter 4 2024. Vacancies remain lower than the 43% seen in quarter 4 2021, which data suggests was the peak of the HGV driver shortage
- The top three most common reason for vacancies remained the same in 2025 as in 2024. These were ‘better pay or benefit elsewhere’, ‘existing driver leaving industry’ and ‘driver retirement’, each reported by around a third of business
- The proportion of HGV businesses reporting increasing wages of their HGV drivers in the preceding three months was between 11% and 26% during 2025, which was comparable to the proportions seen in 2024
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