PCV test centres: bus and coach test pass rates

Passenger carrying vehicle tests follow the same shape as lorry tests: an off-road manoeuvres exercise, then a driving test on public roads in a bus or coach. Volumes are small (a few thousand tests a year nationally), so DVSA suppresses the counts at many sites and publishes only the pass rate.

PCV manoeuvres, 2025/26

86.1%

397 tests

PCV on-road test, 2025/26

66.2%

11,008 tests

Test sites

with published results

Test site	Region	Manoeuvres 2025/26		On road 2025/26
		Tests	Pass rate	Tests	Pass rate
2Start Training	–	–	–	–	80.0%
Abacus Training (Liverpool)	–	–	–	94	63.8%
Aberdeen North LGV	–	–	88.0%	–	84.6%
Apex (Peterborough)	–	–	–	–	69.2%
Atherton (Manchester)	North West	–	88.5%	188	58.5%
Berry's Coaches (Taunton)	–	–	–	104	80.8%
Berwick-On-Tweed	North East	–	–	–	82.1%
Beverley LGV	–	–	–	–	64.0%
Big On Driver Training	–	–	–	–	40.0%
Birmingham (Garretts Green)	West Midlands	–	93.8%	206	59.7%
Bishopbriggs	Scotland	–	–	–	78.0%
Boston LGV Training (Marsh Lane)	–	–	–	–	71.9%
Bredbury (Manchester)	North West	–	45.5%	79	65.8%
Bristol (Kingswood)	South West	–	–	109	80.7%
Camborne	South West	–	–	–	81.8%
Carlisle LGV (Cars)	North West	–	–	–	70.0%
Carmel (Caernarfon)	–	–	–	63	77.8%
Chelmsford (Hanbury Road)	East of England	–	–	77	55.8%
Chevron (Flint)	–	–	–	43	69.8%
Cross Hands (Llanelli)	–	–	–	39	79.5%
CTTS -Bathgate	–	–	–	134	73.9%
Culham LGV	–	–	70.6%	88	54.5%
Distribution Skills (SID)	–	–	–	–	48.0%
Dreghorn LGV	–	–	–	–	82.4%
DRIVER TRAINING (WALES)	–	–	–	–	79.6%
Driver Training Centre (Hastings)	–	–	–	–	92.9%
Dulson Training (Shrewsbury)	–	–	–	–	59.6%
Dulson Training Ltd (Telford)	–	–	–	–	52.4%
Dumfries LGV	–	–	–	–	83.3%
Durham LGV	–	–	–	75	73.3%
Elgin	Scotland	–	–	–	35.5%
Enfield (Brancroft Way)	London	–	84.6%	–	56.4%
Exeter LGV	–	–	86.4%	–	73.0%
Featherstone	West Midlands	–	63.6%	–	47.6%
For Group Holdings Limited	–	–	–	81	69.1%
Gillingham LGV	–	–	–	92	66.3%
Gosforth	North East	–	–	27	81.5%
Greenham	–	–	–	–	76.9%
GTG (Glasgow)	–	–	–	159	56.0%
GTG (West Midlands)	–	–	88.9%	–	51.4%
GTG Edinburgh	–	–	–	–	62.2%
Guildford	South East	–	80.0%	144	66.7%
Hamiltons (Kings Lynn)	–	–	–	–	71.4%
Heads of the Valleys	–	–	–	109	81.7%
HUGHES DRIVER TRAINING	–	–	–	89	60.7%
Huw Williams Driver Training (Anglesey)	–	–	–	47	70.2%
Inverness (Seafield Road)	Scotland	16	87.5%	78	51.3%
Ipswich	East of England	–	90.9%	150	78.7%
Kirkham LGV	–	–	70.0%	47	63.8%
L&T (Fitzwilliam)	–	–	–	92	70.7%
Lancaster Training (Heysham)	–	–	–	–	88.9%
Leicester (Cannock Street)	East Midlands	–	–	168	49.4%
Leighton Buzzard (Stanbridge Road)	East of England	–	83.3%	385	62.9%
LGV Trainers (Northampton)	–	–	–	–	78.8%
Livingston	Scotland	–	–	34	64.7%
Llantrisant	Wales	–	88.9%	180	70.6%
Machrihanish LGV	–	–	–	–	66.7%
National Driving Centre (Croydon)	–	–	–	–	54.7%
NATIONAL FIGURES	–	381	86.1%	6,527	66.2%
Newport (Gwent) LGV	–	–	90.5%	–	77.1%
Norwich (Jupiter Road)	East of England	–	–	–	72.3%
Orkney	Scotland	–	–	–	80.0%
Peter Smythe (Mansfield)	–	–	–	–	49.4%
Peterborough LGV	–	–	–	78	59.0%
Phil Brown (Droitwich)	–	–	–	43	90.7%
PJ Edwards	–	–	–	30	93.3%
Plymouth LGV	–	–	88.9%	–	76.9%
Poole	South West	–	–	91	74.7%
Red Rose (Radcliffe)	–	–	–	–	59.8%
Roadtrain (Essex)	–	–	–	–	64.3%
Roadwise - Portsmouth	–	–	–	–	85.7%
Sheffield (Handsworth)	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	127	64.6%
Steeton	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	173	64.2%
Swindon LGV	–	–	87.5%	–	67.7%
Switch Island	–	–	–	–	64.0%
Taunton Training	–	–	–	48	83.3%
Teesside LGV	–	–	–	68	82.4%
Thurrock LGV (London)	–	–	–	69	53.6%
Tilston School of Motoring	–	–	–	40	87.5%
TTA - Atherton	–	–	–	–	66.7%
Tyne & Wear LGV (Felling)	–	–	–	–	66.7%
Viamaster (Castleford)	–	–	–	–	85.7%
Walton LGV	Yorkshire and The Humber	–	–	127	74.8%
Watnall	–	–	–	–	69.6%
Weedon LGV	–	–	86.2%	82	70.7%
Welwyn LGV (East Yorks)	–	–	–	–	60.0%
Worthing LGV	–	–	–	–	92.0%
Wrexham LGV	–	–	–	98	63.3%
Yeading (London)	London	–	–	226	51.8%

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

PCV covers buses and coaches (categories D and D1). Most sites here also run lorry tests.

As with lorry tests, many of these sites are training companies hosting DVSA examiners. The pass rate describes the candidates who tested there rather than the company, and at these volumes a handful of results moves it several points.

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.