Chauffeur Services in Stourbridge

Stourbridge's link to the M5 is the A491, and that is the first road to fail whenever the motorway does. From about half past seven it slows steadily between the Hagley turn and junction 3, and southbound in the evening it fares worse still. Alternatives run to the A458 for Bridgnorth and the A449 heading north, while an airport run will sometimes take junction 4 in place of 3. Poor weather and the local hills together cost minutes.

Bracketing the town, Kinver Edge and the Clent Hills fill with walkers on any fine weekend, which narrows the lanes at Kinver, Enville and Clent to something a large car must take slowly. Wedding venues out in those villages tend to have long, unlit drives, and we look at them ahead of the day. At Stourbridge Junction the car park fills early and the setting-down area is short, so meeting points are arranged and confirmed in writing.

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.