# Operator licence datasets — o-licence

> The GB operator licence register, extracted, deduplicated and enriched. Change feed, single slice, or full snapshot, with prices.

## The register, prepared

Everything on this site is free to read. What is sold is the work of turning eight regional CSVs into one clean, deduplicated, joinable table — and keeping it that way every week.

The pages of this site are free and will stay free : **an official fact belongs to no one**. What is sold here is the compilation work — extracting the DVSA operator licence register, reconciling it, dating it, and delivering it in a usable form.

### What is worth buying is the flow, not the stock

The DVSA republishes this file **every Sunday**, and each
publication overwrites the last. Nothing anywhere keeps the previous one. So
the register can tell you that a licence is curtailed today; it cannot tell you
that it was curtailed *last month*, or that an operator's authorised
fleet went from 12 to 4.

**We keep every publication.** From the first collection on
2026-08-18, each week is compared with the one before and the
differences are kept. That history cannot be reconstructed after the fact by
anyone who did not start collecting — which is the whole reason the
subscription is listed first below and the one-off snapshot last.

We do not publish a monthly rate of new licences, because we
have collected once and do not know it. We will say what it is when we have
measured it rather than estimated it.

- **Change feed — GBP 300 / month**Or GBP 3 000 a year. At every collection, what came in, went out or changed since the previous one. This is the part that does not age.
- **One slice — GBP 90 / month**The feed restricted to a single traffic area or nation, for those who do not need the rest.
- **Full snapshot — GBP 4 000, once**The state of the register on the day of delivery, every field included. Listed last on purpose : a snapshot ages.

### What you get, field by field

*Fields delivered and fill rate, measured on the rows actually delivered — not estimated*

| Field | Description | Filled |
|---|---|---|
| `num` | Licence number, the key. Two letters and seven digits. | 100.0 % |
| `operator` | Operator name as registered. | 100.0 % |
| `licence_type` | Restricted, Standard National or Standard International. | 100.0 % |
| `status` | Valid, curtailed or suspended. | 100.0 % |
| `vehicles_authorised` | Vehicles the licence permits. | 100.0 % |
| `trailers_authorised` | Trailers the licence permits. | 100.0 % |
| `vehicles_specified` | Vehicles actually specified on the licence. | 88.9 % |
| `operator_type` | Limited company, sole trader, partnership. | 100.0 % |
| `company_number` | Companies House number. | 78.5 % |
| `traffic_area` | One of the eight traffic areas. | 100.0 % |
| `postcode_area` | ⚠️ The postcode area of the operating centre, extracted from a free-text address and validated against the 121 real GB areas. | 99.6 % |
| `postcode_area_name` | ⚠️ The town that names the area — B is Birmingham, PE is Peterborough. | 99.6 % |
| `nation` | ⚠️ England, Scotland or Wales, derived from the area. | 99.6 % |
| `fleet_band` | ⚠️ One of eight bands cut on the real distribution. | 100.0 % |
| `one_row_per_licence` | ⚠️ The source ships one row per licence x director; this is deduplicated to one row per licence, so that any sum is correct. | 100.0 % |

The 5 fields marked ⚠️ **do not exist in the source** : we add them — a join, a normalisation, or a reconstructed history. That is the part a buyer cannot reproduce by downloading the official file.

The four fields marked with a warning sign are the reason to buy rather than
download. The source ships **179,876 rows for 69,173 licences**
— one row per licence per named director — so every naive sum over the raw file
is wrong by a factor of about 2.6. And the operating centre address is free
text with no separator: pulling a usable geography out of it, and validating it
against the real list of postcode areas rather than whatever the regular
expression happened to match, is the join nobody else does.

**What we do not sell, at any price:** the named
transport managers and directors. The source publishes them in clear on every
row. They are dropped at ingestion and are in neither the site nor any file we
deliver.

### Order

Tell us what you need : we reply with a sample, the field dictionary, and an invoice. **No payment is taken on this site** — an order opens a conversation.

Prices in GBP, before any applicable tax. Delivered as CSV and Parquet, by download link. Every request is answered by hand.

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Página: https://o-licence.pages.dev/data/
Fonte: Traffic Commissioners: goods and public service vehicle operator licence records — Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Recolha: 2026-08-18