Chauffeur Services in Sittingbourne

Tall and exposed, the Sheppey crossing on the A249 attracts restrictions in strong winds, or the older bascule bridge alongside takes the traffic instead. Whichever happens, the approach at Iwade slows considerably. Going south, the A249 down to Detling and the M20 moves quickly enough apart from the Stockbury interchange at junction five of the M2, which queues in both peaks and remains the commonest single reason a departure from this town runs late.

Ordinarily the M2 runs free, though it carries the strain whenever cross-Channel traffic is disrupted and contraflow arrangements go up on the M20. Journey times towards London turn unpredictable on days like that, so we allow a substantial margin instead of promising a tight connection. Before a morning flight out of any London airport, we would ordinarily suggest leaving Sittingbourne about three and a half to four hours ahead of the scheduled departure time.

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.