Chauffeur Services in Bridgwater

Junctions 23 and 24 sit on either side of the town, which is a real gift, provided you choose correctly between them. Going north, 23 gives the cleaner start. Heading south, or towards Taunton, you generally want 24 and the A38. In high summer the stretch that links the pair is among the busiest on the whole M5, and across Saturdays in late July and August the southbound queue towards Taunton can crawl for a long while with absolutely nothing at the head of it to explain why.

The town's other pulse is the daily run to and from the construction and energy sites near the coast, which packs the A39 and the Cannington road at set hours of the morning and again in the afternoon. Collections get timed to fall either side of that, never through the middle of it. If your flight leaves Bristol before eight, setting off roughly two hours ahead is comfortable enough in winter. On a summer weekend, with the motorway filling early, we would add to that figure.

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.