Chauffeur Services in Ballymena

Where the M2 finishes at Ballymena you meet a real pinch point: traffic that has been running freely arrives at roundabouts and single carriageway going north. Throw in the harvest, or a wet Friday afternoon, and the A26 towards Ballymoney can reduce to a crawl. Chauffeurs who work this ground know when to stay on the main road and when to slip through Cullybackey or Ahoghill instead. That judgement goes into the plan, not into a decision made halfway up the road with a flight to catch.

Head east and the country changes altogether. Past Broughshane the A42 climbs, crosses the shoulder of Slemish and drops down to Carnlough on the coast, where the A2 takes over. Run that way round and a day covers the Glens, Cushendun, Ballycastle and the Causeway before coming back by Ballymoney, which beats the same ground taken in reverse. If visibility is poor we stay low and use the coast road the whole way instead.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.