Chauffeur Services in Exeter

At junction 31 the country alters in character. West of there the A30 and A38 run dual for long stretches, yet neither is a motorway, and between them they carry the whole holiday flow into Devon and Cornwall. Summer Saturdays see the queues begin early and hold for hours, worst of all around the A30 at Whiddon Down and on the A38 climb over Haldon. Any journey west from late July to the end of August is planned with that assumption in place from the outset.

Within the city, time goes missing at the Exe crossings and on the Alphington and Marsh Barton approaches during peaks, while a matchday at Sandy Park loads the Sowton and junction 30 corridor considerably. Collections in Cathedral Close want a set-down at an agreed corner, not at the door itself. Flying early from Bristol, we would normally pull away from Exeter around two and a half hours ahead, with more added on a holiday weekend.

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.