UK SIC 2007 · 49410
Freight transport by road (SIC code 49410)
Road haulage firms file here. The code covers fleet operators, owner-driver hauliers, multi-drop logistics and contract distribution. If a UK business moves goods by lorry, this is its SIC.
Division 49: Land transport and transport via pipelines
Division 49 moves goods and people by road and rail. Road freight dominates it. Code 49410 is the standard choice for hauliers, from a one-truck owner-driver up to a national fleet. Passenger work splits in two. Taxi and private hire operators use 49320. Coaches, minibuses, chauffeur services and the rest use 49390. Removal firms have their own code, 49420. Pipeline transport belongs in this division too, though in practice the register is full of vehicles rather than pipes. The code a company picks usually matches what is parked in its yard.
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Who prospects SIC 49410 companies
Transport operators buy heavily and buy again every year. That is why fuel card providers, commercial vehicle finance and leasing brokers, telematics vendors and specialist haulage insurers work this division hard. Recruiters supplying drivers and transport managers sell here too, alongside operator licence compliance consultants. A new 49410 company often comes just before an operator licence application and a vehicle purchase. Timing matters. Reaching a haulier in its first weeks beats arriving later. Growth in filed accounts usually means more vehicles, and more vehicles mean bigger policies, more fuel and more drivers.
Lead generation for trades & construction →How to read SIC 49410
SIC 49410 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 49, are the division, land transport and transport via pipelines. Add the third and you have group 494; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section H, transportation and storage, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 49410 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 49410 are London (5,034), Birmingham (1,829), Leicester (1,220), Coventry (1,095) and Manchester (995). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 49410 as a filter
63,930 companies is 1.2 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 49410 most used of the 7 codes we track in division 49. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
Almost everybody who uses 49410 means it: 56,193 of 63,930 companies put it first, leaving only 7,737 carrying it as a secondary code. That makes it an unusually clean filter. You can match on the code alone and trust that the companies you get really are in this line of work.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 8 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 16 per cent, so the remaining 84 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 49410 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 49410, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 63,930 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job. Every company you pull carries the Companies House record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 49410 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 49410
Are owner-drivers filed under SIC 49410?
Yes. UK owner-drivers who set up a ltd company nearly always file 49410. About 30% of firms under this code run one vehicle with one director.
Do freight forwarders use SIC 49410?
No. International freight forwarding is 52290 (other transportation support). 49410 is for hauliers that drive the goods themselves, at home or abroad.
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