M6 Toll is the UK’s first and only major toll motorway, providing a 27‑mile route around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Opened in 2003, it offers motorists a quicker, less congested alternative to the M6, helping improve journey reliability for commuters, freight operators, and long-distance travellers across the region.
M6toll is the UK’s first and only major toll motorway, providing a 27-mile route around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Opened in 2003, it offers motorists and fleet operators a quicker, less congested alternative to the M6, helping improve journey reliability, reduce delays and support more efficient movement of people and goods across the region.
As a strategically located part of the UK motorway network, M6toll plays an important role in supporting national freight movements, business travel and regional economic growth. The route helps commercial operators achieve greater schedule certainty, improved vehicle utilisation and more predictable delivery times by avoiding congestion hotspots through the West Midlands.
M6toll is committed to delivering operational excellence through the adoption of innovative technologies, data-led decision making and continuous investment in its infrastructure. The business is focused on providing a safe, reliable and high-quality experience for all road users while supporting the transport sector's evolving priorities around efficiency, sustainability and customer service.
For fleet operators, logistics providers and commercial vehicle drivers, M6toll offers a practical solution to the challenges of increasing congestion, operational pressures and tight delivery schedules. By helping businesses save time, improve route reliability and optimise fleet performance, M6toll supports many of the same objectives championed by FORS: safer operations, smarter use of transport networks, improved efficiency and the promotion of industry best practice.
As an award-winning transport infrastructure operator, M6toll continues to work closely with customers, industry partners and stakeholders to support innovation across the road transport sector. Through ongoing engagement with fleet operators and participation in industry forums such as the FORS Annual Conference, M6toll is helping to shape conversations around the future of transport and the role modern infrastructure can play in creating safer, more sustainable and more efficient journeys for everyone.
M6toll Operations Centre
Express Way
Weeford
Lichfield