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Healthy growth in licensed vehicles
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DfT figures show that the number of vehicles licensed for use on UK roads continues to grow — with one notable exception...
Figures just released by the Department for Transport show that the number of large goods vehicles licensed for use on the UK's roads fell last yearthe only class of vehicle that failed to show an increase.
Figures in the DfT's interim report, Vehicles Licensed in Great Britain 2005, also show that the van sector continues to grow. If you break down the number of licensed vehicles by taxation group, the non-car Passenger Light Goods (PLGs) sector expanded by 4.1% in 2005, rising from 22 million to 3.0 million. And if the figures are analysed by body type, light goods vehicles also saw a healthy rise -they rose by 4.3% to 2.9 million.
However, the picture for large goods vehicles is not so healthy. Table 1 shows that the number of licensed goods vehicles dropped 0.3% to 433,000 and if vehicles at the lighter end are stripped out, as in Table 2, the fall is more pronounced -down 2.6% to 416,000 from 427,000 the year before.
In comparison the number of cars on the road increased slightly; this sector rose, by 1.8% to 26.2 million.
The currently healthy state of the truck and van market is also reflected in the figures.
Analysis by taxation group (Table 4) shows that 216,000 new vehicles were registered in 2005; a rise of 7.1% on the year before However, registrations of non-car PLGs dropped by 2.9%.
When the newly registered vehicles figures are analysed by body type they show that goods vehicle registrations were broadly static at 34,000, while light goods fell slightly by 3.3% to 329,000.
On the other hand cars registered for the first time were down by around 6% year on year.