Chauffeur Services in Bury St Edmunds

Above all the A14 is a working freight route, and it is the road that matters here, carrying heavy lorry traffic between Felixstowe and the Midlands. Junctions 42 to 44 serve the town, while the westbound stretch past Newmarket slows the moment there is an incident, realistic alternatives being few. Heading for a Stansted departure we run west on the A14 and then south on the A11 and M11, leaving earlier than the distance suggests whenever the freight is heavy.

Markets come first, since they are the closer problem: on Wednesdays and Saturdays the streets round Cornhill and the Traverse fill from early morning, and parking anywhere near the centre those days is best abandoned as an idea. Further off, a race day at Newmarket rearranges the local roads, the A1304 and the approaches to the Rowley Mile and the July Course staying busy for hours in both directions. The Guineas meeting and the big summer fixtures are the ones to plan around.

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.