Chauffeur Services in Stafford

Among the most congested stretches in the country is the M6 between junctions 13 and 15, and every Stafford timing bends to it. Going south, it slows from before seven and then again from three, while an incident anywhere north of here adds an hour with no warning at all. Our quotations reflect that reality, not a clear run, and for journeys north we will weigh up the A34 and A50 once the motorway is already standing still.

West of the centre, off the Newport Road side, Stafford station has a compact forecourt, so we use a spot arranged in advance and well clear of the drop-off area. County show weekends at the showground pack out the A518 and the lanes around it from mid-morning on. A short run south-east brings you to the great house and the edge of Cannock Chase, where the approaches narrow the moment you leave the main road. Late trains from Euston come into a quiet station, and a waiting car is easy enough to spot.

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.