Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table 1.8 Heavy goods vehicles licensed at 31 December, by gross weight
Gross weight (tonnes)	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006²	2007²	2008²	2009²	2010
											percentage of year total
3.5 to 7.5	32.3	30.9	30.4	30.4	30.4	30.5	30.0	29.7	29.6	29.1	29.2
7.51 to 12	3.5	3.2	3.1	2.9	2.8	3.1	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4
12.1 to 16	4.7	4.6	4.4	4.2	4.0	4.2	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.1	4.0
16.1 to 20	16.8	16.9	16.1	15.1	14.6	14.3	14.4	14.2	14.1	14.1	14.4
20.1 to 24	2.8	3.1	3.6	4.4	4.3	4.0	3.9	3.7	3.7	3.4	3.2
24.1 to 28	10.2	10.4	10.9	11.0	11.6	12.0	12.6	12.6	12.6	13.0	13.3
28.1 to 32	5.5	5.7	6.2	6.4	6.7	7.1	7.8	8.5	9.0	9.0	8.9
32.1 to 38	11.8	8.6	6.6	5.5	4.7	4.0	3.3	2.9	2.7	2.7	2.4
over 38	12.5	16.6	18.8	20.0	20.9	20.8	21.5	21.7	21.7	22.3	22.2
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
											thousand
Total¹	30.7	29.9	30.5	31.0	31.9	33.0	33.0	32.7	32.2	31.2	30.4

1. Includes heavy goods vehicles that are exempt from tax and therefore not licensed as HGVs, and also some vehicles which are licensed as HGVs but do not have a goods body type.
2. DfT have revised stock figures from 2006 to 2009 - see http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/vehicles/licensing/latest/notesvls.pdf