Man and Van in Bridge

Losing the through-traffic made the high street a far better place to load than it used to be. It did not make it wider. The road still narrows in the middle and cars park along both sides of it, so a Luton sitting outside a cottage takes up most of what is left.

The pinch points are now predictable rather than constant, which is the useful part. School times and the early evening are when the road fills, and outside those a well-placed van causes nobody any trouble. We pick the stopping point and the hour together rather than treating them as separate questions.

Bridge proper is compact, but a good share of the work we do from here is out in Bekesbourne, Patrixbourne and Bishopsbourne, which are strung along the Nailbourne rather than clustered. Two addresses with the same postcode prefix can be several minutes and a couple of single-track lanes apart.

That matters for a quote, because the distance between your two doors is part of the price. Give us both ends properly, including which of the bournes you mean, and the figure we give you is the figure at the end.

Because the villages sit close together, a fair number of jobs here are really two stops: a house in Bridge and something waiting at a relative's place a mile or two down the lane. Done in one run that is far cheaper than booking it twice.

Tell us about the second stop when you ask rather than on the day. Fitting it in is usually straightforward if we have planned the load order around it, and genuinely awkward if the van is already packed to the doors when you mention it.