LGV and HGV test centres: lorry test pass rates

Lorry tests are split in two. The manoeuvres exercise is done off road on a marked area, and the driving test proper is about an hour on public roads, with uncoupling and recoupling added for trailer categories. Unlike car tests, most of these run from private training grounds under contract to DVSA rather than from a DVSA test centre, which is why the list below mixes familiar centre names with training companies.

LGV manoeuvres, 2025/26

70.8%

3,526 tests

LGV on-road test, 2025/26

60.6%

139,940 tests

Test sites

120

with published results

Test site	Region	Manoeuvres 2025/26		On road 2025/26
		Tests	Pass rate	Tests	Pass rate
2 Start - Otterbourne	–	–	–	369	70.2%
2 Start Training (Worthing)	–	–	–	170	73.5%
2Start Training	–	–	–	303	48.2%
Abacus Training (Liverpool)	–	–	–	–	65.0%
Aberdeen North LGV	–	180	83.9%	195	72.8%
Apex (Peterborough)	–	–	–	271	65.7%
Atherton (Manchester)	North West	–	64.3%	1,730	51.0%
Automotive Transport Training	–	–	–	258	72.1%
Berry's Coaches (Taunton)	–	–	–	600	84.5%
Berwick-On-Tweed	North East	–	–	–	91.7%
Beverley LGV	–	–	–	785	64.7%
Big On Driver Training	–	–	–	169	45.0%
Big Wheelers Driver Training (Anglesey)	–	–	–	–	70.4%
Birmingham (Garretts Green)	West Midlands	–	66.2%	2,482	51.0%
Bishopbriggs	Scotland	–	–	446	76.7%
Boston LGV Training (Marsh Lane)	–	–	–	239	65.3%
Bowring Transport Ltd (Mansfield)	–	–	–	165	51.5%
Bredbury (Manchester)	North West	–	65.9%	2,140	48.1%
Bristol (Kingswood)	South West	96	90.6%	1,684	72.1%
ByPass - Eastleigh	–	–	–	292	69.2%
Camborne	South West	–	–	369	68.3%
Carlisle LGV (Cars)	North West	–	–	176	79.0%
Carmel (Caernarfon)	–	–	–	55	87.3%
Chelmsford (Hanbury Road)	East of England	–	–	627	52.5%
Chevron (Flint)	–	–	–	147	68.7%
COT Solutions Swansea	–	–	–	–	76.5%
CRH Transport Training	–	–	–	–	40.7%
Cross Hands (Llanelli)	–	–	–	–	83.2%
CTTS -Bathgate	–	–	–	270	80.7%
Culham LGV	–	–	49.2%	707	49.4%
Denby Transport Ltd (Lincoln)	–	–	–	136	69.9%
Diamond (Newark)	–	–	–	206	67.0%
Distribution Skills (SID)	–	–	–	350	44.3%
Dreghorn LGV	–	–	–	410	73.9%
DRIVER TRAINING (WALES)	–	–	–	187	59.9%
Driver Training Centre (Hastings)	–	–	–	103	78.6%
Dulson Training (Ludlow)	–	–	–	103	90.3%
Dulson Training (Shrewsbury)	–	–	–	559	55.1%
Dulson Training Ltd (Telford)	–	–	–	413	54.5%
Dumfries LGV	–	–	–	218	73.4%
Durham LGV	–	–	–	720	67.9%
Elgin	Scotland	–	–	356	52.2%
Enfield (Brancroft Way)	London	403	58.8%	1,992	59.2%
Euro1 (Doncaster)	–	–	–	214	65.4%
Exeter LGV	–	–	90.5%	1,117	60.8%
Featherstone	West Midlands	33	75.8%	3,452	40.3%
Fleet Master Group (Dewsbury)	–	–	–	216	73.1%
For Group Holdings Limited	–	–	–	337	70.9%
George Lovatt	–	–	–	641	67.6%
Gillingham LGV	–	–	–	1,533	58.3%
Gosforth	North East	–	–	1,039	71.2%
Greenham	–	171	60.2%	621	48.0%
Grimsby Coldwater	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	445	68.5%
GTG (Glasgow)	–	–	–	953	62.4%
GTG (West Midlands)	–	–	–	698	48.6%
GTG Edinburgh	–	–	–	429	68.1%
Guildford	South East	179	71.5%	1,710	61.8%
Hamiltons (Kings Lynn)	–	–	85.4%	152	69.7%
Heads of the Valleys	–	–	–	460	85.7%
HUGHES DRIVER TRAINING	–	–	–	758	49.5%
Huw Williams Driver Training (Anglesey)	–	–	–	91	79.1%
Inverness (Seafield Road)	Scotland	91	84.6%	367	52.9%
Ipswich	East of England	157	76.4%	1,254	87.6%
J Coates - St Albans	–	–	–	66	69.7%
Jim Mair Driver Training	–	–	–	–	73.8%
JLD Driver Training	–	–	–	–	94.8%
Kirkham LGV	–	–	–	516	63.2%
L&T (Fitzwilliam)	–	–	–	528	73.5%
Lancaster Training (Heysham)	–	–	–	186	89.8%
Leicester (Cannock Street)	East Midlands	–	69.6%	1,781	48.9%
Leighton Buzzard (Stanbridge Road)	East of England	–	72.4%	2,394	58.6%
LGV Trainers (Northampton)	–	–	–	329	72.0%
Livingston	Scotland	–	–	339	69.9%
Llantrisant	Wales	–	–	1,151	61.3%
Machrihanish LGV	–	–	–	–	95.2%
Mainstream (Sittingbourne)	–	–	–	–	81.6%
Mantra Learning (Manchester)	–	–	–	598	60.7%
MT Training (Cheltenham)	–	–	–	372	68.8%
MT Training (Droitwich)	–	–	–	345	69.6%
National Driving Centre (Croydon)	–	–	–	484	54.1%
NATIONAL FIGURES	–	2,038	71.4%	70,797	60.7%
Newport (Gwent) LGV	–	–	–	595	76.0%
Norwich (Jupiter Road)	East of England	–	–	630	68.4%
Orkney	Scotland	–	82.4%	–	61.3%
Perth (Arran Road)	Scotland	49	81.6%	503	60.2%
Peter Smythe (Mansfield)	–	–	–	576	52.8%
Peterborough LGV	–	–	66.7%	760	62.2%
Phil Brown (Droitwich)	–	–	–	216	78.2%
PJ Edwards	–	–	–	197	91.4%
Plymouth LGV	–	–	–	254	66.1%
Poole	South West	–	–	427	73.5%
R G Bassett (Stoke)	–	–	–	191	57.6%
Red Rose (Radcliffe)	–	–	–	218	69.3%
Roadtrain (Essex)	–	–	–	354	64.4%
Roadwise - Portsmouth	–	–	–	292	68.2%
Sheffield (Handsworth)	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	1,484	57.1%
SP Training (Workington)	–	–	–	–	95.3%
Steeton	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	1,196	69.2%
Sunderland LGV	–	–	–	265	70.2%
Swindon LGV	–	–	83.6%	720	69.2%
Switch Island	–	–	–	656	59.9%
System People Ltd (Carlisle)	–	–	–	150	85.3%
T. French & Son	–	–	–	219	88.6%
Taunton Training	–	–	–	140	88.6%
Teesside LGV	–	–	–	324	85.8%
The Road Haulage Association	–	–	–	142	66.9%
Thurrock LGV (London)	–	–	–	1,705	58.8%
Tilston School of Motoring	–	–	–	191	80.6%
TRS - Knowsley	–	–	–	–	64.6%
TTA - Atherton	–	–	–	277	57.4%
Tyne & Wear LGV (Felling)	–	–	–	–	64.9%
Viamaster (Castleford)	–	–	–	471	60.1%
Wallace (Slough)	–	–	–	–	73.5%
Walton LGV	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	1,755	58.9%
Watnall	–	–	–	1,342	58.3%
Weedon LGV	–	129	55.8%	1,499	49.7%
Welwyn LGV (East Yorks)	–	–	–	215	80.9%
Worthing LGV	–	–	–	436	76.4%
Wrexham LGV	–	–	–	1,057	65.5%
Yeading (London)	London	–	72.7%	3,708	48.9%

A dash means DVSA suppressed the number because too few tests were taken there to publish without identifying candidates. Some sites publish a pass rate but not the underlying counts for the same reason.

Reading the table

DVSA still labels these LGV (large goods vehicle). HGV is the older term and means the same thing.

Several of these sites are training companies that host DVSA tests. The pass rate belongs to the candidates who tested there, not to the company: it reflects who books, how much training they had and what the local roads are like, and a site that trains beginners will read lower than one that mostly tests experienced drivers adding a category.

Pass rates at small sites move a long way on a handful of results, so treat anything under about fifty tests as indicative rather than a ranking. Car test centre figures, waiting times and route notes are in the car test centre directory.

Source: DVSA driving test statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.