Road Freight succession in West Midlands

Name: Road Freight business succession in West Midlands
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786 of 5,088 road freight companies in West Midlands — 15.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 6th highest of 7 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured5,088

Director aged 60+786

Exposure rate15.4%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

5,088

Companies measured

786

Director 60+

205

Director 70+

15.4%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Road Freight companies in West Midlands measured	5,088
Oldest director aged 60 or over	786
Oldest director aged 70 or over	205

Of the 786 with a director over 60, 92 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

Region	60+	Rate
Wales	327	34.8%
North East	206	33.4%
Scotland	394	33.2%
Northern Ireland	233	29.1%
North West	997	25.1%
South West	469	25.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber	762	21.6%
South East	761	19.8%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	5,026	38.2%
Lettings	4,854	33.7%
Retail	3,544	20.8%
Investment	2,985	27.5%
Investment / Fund Management	2,542	37%
Other Leisure	2,403	30.2%
Property Development	1,996	43.3%
Engineering Services	1,859	37.3%

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 West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-road-freight/west-midlands/

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.