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The UK fleets that are about to get bigger.

No operator can run an extra lorry until its licence says it may, and every application to add vehicles is published with the numbers and a date. Read together, they are the earliest reliable picture of where road freight capacity in Britain is growing.

Cards since 21 September 2026
260
vehicles applied for
2,295
Regions with activity
12

Last updated 6 November 2026. To quote a figure: “CapexRadar, capexradar.uk/hauliers, 6 November 2026”.

Every operator applying to grow, week by week: the fleet growth index

See the cards on StanfellStanfell is where suppliers read the cards, with the company and how to reach it. Try it with a work email.
  • Scotland11
  • Northern Ireland12
  • North East14
  • North West36
  • Yorkshire and the Humber29
  • Wales8
  • West Midlands29
  • East Midlands15
  • East of England29
  • South West26
  • London11
  • South East40
By region, all months260 in all

By region

RegionCardsShare
Scotland11
Northern Ireland12
North East14
North West36
Yorkshire and the Humber29
Wales8
West Midlands29
East Midlands15
East of England29
South West26
London11
South East40

A region comes from the postcode of the site or centre. Where the record has none, the card is counted as not placed rather than guessed.

By month

A month gets its own page once it holds 5 or more cards.

Companies are named here a month after their card is published; the first in this sector appear on 21 October 2026.

How this page counts

What is counted
An application to raise the number of vehicles an operator may run, or to add an operating centre with more vehicles, at an operator we can match to a registered company.
What is left out
Surrenders, transfers, applications that do not add vehicles, and anything we cannot tie to a company with confidence.

Why it matters to a supplier

  • A fleet growing from twelve to sixteen lorries needs drivers, finance, tyres, tracking and a yard that can take them, and it needs them within weeks of the decision.
  • The application comes before the purchase. By the time new vehicles are on the road, the suppliers have already been chosen.
  • Counted by region, applications show where operators are betting on more work: new distribution contracts, new sites, new customers.

Questions

Does this include every haulier in the UK?
Every operator that applies to grow in Great Britain, each week. Operators that stay the same size do not appear, because nothing about them has changed.
Why are the company names delayed?
Because in the first month an application is a sales lead, and that is what Stanfell is for. After thirty days the name appears here for the cards Stanfell shows every reader; the others stay unnamed.

The cards behind these numbers

On Stanfell, every card in this sector carries the figure, the date, the company behind it and a reading for your trade, the day it is published.

Operator licence leads on Stanfell