Road Freight succession in South West

Name: Road Freight business succession in South West
Creator: ExitRadar
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475 of 1,866 road freight companies in South West (25.5%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,866

Director aged 60+475

Exposure rate25.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

1,866

Companies measured

475

Director 60+

162

Director 70+

25.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; road freight nationally runs at 19.6%.

Measure	Companies
Road Freight companies in South West measured	1,866
Oldest director aged 60 or over	475
Oldest director aged 70 or over	162

Of the 475 with a director over 60, 79 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Road Freight in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Wales	310	33%
Scotland	403	32.4%
North East	194	31.3%
Northern Ireland	238	28.9%
North West	989	24.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber	739	21.1%
South East	869	19.5%
East of England	919	17.5%

Other trades in South West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,563	42.4%
Lettings	6,097	43.7%
Retail	4,219	31.7%
Other Leisure	3,052	35.9%
Agriculture	2,727	56.2%
Property Development	2,682	47.6%
Investment	2,624	37.4%
Investment / Fund Management	2,581	40%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Road Freight succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-road-freight/south-west/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.