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I haven't done a morning rush hour but evenings it starts backing up from around 4.30PM and doesn't clear until 7.30PM so I have little doubt it is very similar in the morning!

I would avoid the M42 at rush hour, it gets VERY busy in both directions, so much so that they use the hard shoulder as an extra lane. I have to go to Derby regularly for professional reasons and I have found that the M1 is usually the fastest way of getting there. A grindingly DULL route but...

Follow M1 all the way up past Leicester, get off at Junction 22 and follow A511 to Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and then Burton. Avoids the dogs breakfast of the M40/M42/M6 Toll Road south of Brum. NB: A511 is single carriageway all the way so if you do get stuck behind slow moving...