Chauffeur Services in Carmarthen

Improved here and there, the A40 west of Carmarthen stays single carriageway for most of the run to Haverfordwest, and the stretch past St Clears and Whitland is what settles your timing. Get stuck behind something slow and safe overtakes are few. Add summer, when caravan traffic bound for Tenby and Saundersfoot doubles the volume, and the picture worsens. Sailings from Fishguard or Pembroke Dock therefore get a generous margin, since no faster alternative exists to fall back on.

Wednesday and Saturday are the busy days in town, and the livestock market at Nantycaws draws farm traffic from a wide area. By mid-morning the multi-storey and the riverside car parks are full, and Lammas Street takes its time clearing. Rail counts for more here than almost anywhere else in west Wales: the station stands across the river with direct services running east, and meeting a train there often makes the neatest possible start to a visit.

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.