Chauffeur Services in Bridgend

Through Bridgend the M4 behaves itself, until two things intervene. Roadworks or an incident between junctions thirty-four and thirty-seven tip everything onto the A48 through Pencoed and Laleston, a single carriageway with traffic lights that clogs within minutes. And a big rugby weekend robs the eastbound carriageway towards Cardiff of any edge from late morning on. Our habit then is to leave early and wait at the far end instead of sitting in it.

Turn north and the character alters completely. Up the Ogmore valley towards Treorchy the A4061 climbs onto the Bwlch, an exposed mountain road with hairpin bends and a habit of shutting in snow and high wind; through Maesteg the A4063 is gentler, and still slow behind traffic. For collections in the valleys we ask for a house number plus a nearby corner, because plenty of terraces have no frontage and the streets leave a car nowhere to stand and wait.

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.