UK Business Succession Index

Road Freight succession in North East

206 of 617 road freight companies in North East — 33.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured617
Director aged 60+206
Exposure rate33.4%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
617
Companies measured
206
Director 60+
73
Director 70+
33.4%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; road freight nationally runs at 19.8%.

MeasureCompanies
Road Freight companies in North East measured617
Oldest director aged 60 or over206
Oldest director aged 70 or over73

Of the 206 with a director over 60, 31 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Road Freight in other regions

Region60+Rate
Wales32734.8%
Scotland39433.2%
Northern Ireland23329.1%
North West99725.1%
South West46925.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber76221.6%
South East76119.8%
East of England84018.6%

Other trades in North East

Trade60+Rate
Lettings1,72534.4%
Consultancy Services1,55337.6%
Retail1,16524.4%
Engineering Services92030.2%
Other Leisure91730.5%
Investment91527.3%
Investment / Fund Management66235.9%
Property Development61642.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Logistics & Fleet Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Logistics & Fleet Services →

See all Road Freight succession data or everything in North East.

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ExitRadar, "Road Freight succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-road-freight/north-east/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.