Chauffeur Services in Gillingham

Any journey out of Gillingham is decided by two things. First comes Blue Bell Hill on the A229, the link joining the M2 at junction three to the M20 at junction six, which queues both ways at peak and carries anything bound for Gatwick or the Channel ports. Second comes the Dartford Crossing, which only enters the picture when you are heading north of the river, and can then add an unpredictable half hour of delay.

Dickens weekends in Rochester shut parts of the High Street and fill the car parks from mid morning onwards, while ship calls at Chatham push coach movements onto the A289 and the dockyard approaches. Priestfield on a match day is a genuinely local difficulty: terraced streets round the ground are residents only in places, and the exit afterwards drags in every direction, so we agree a collection point several streets off instead of at the turnstiles.

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.