Chauffeur hire in Bridgwater and the TA postcodes

The outbound run out of Bridgwater is the one people get wrong, usually by an hour. We work backwards: your check-in closes at a fixed time, the drop-off queue at Bristol takes what it takes, and the drive from Bridgwater is an indicative 35-60 minutes. Add the three together and the Bridgwater collection time writes itself.

If the flight is cancelled while you are still on A361, tell the chauffeur. The car turns round, goes back to Bridgwater, and the rebooking is handled in writing rather than at a kerb.

The failure mode of ordinary ground transport is familiar: a text message, a Bristol car park you cannot find, a trolley that will not fit in the lift, and Bridgwater still ahead of you. That is not how a return into Bridgwater is meant to go.

Once the cases are in, the return into Bridgwater is deliberately dull. If you want to sleep between Bristol and Bridgwater, sleep. If you want the fastest way to River Parrett rather than the shortest, say so and it happens.

• Bags taken from the Bristol trolley to the boot and on to Bridgwater
• A diversion away from Bristol requoted for Bridgwater in writing, not argued about
• Late landings still end with the cases at your door in Bridgwater
• Return route into Bridgwater chosen at the airport exit rather than in advance

We ask for a mobile number for one reason: so the chauffeur can say exactly where in Bridgwater the car is without you having to guess. In Bridgwater that single message is often the difference between leaving on time and not.

Loading at the Bridgwater kerb is the chauffeur's job. So is holding the door, which sounds like theatre until you are doing it yourself in rain on A361 with a laptop bag under one arm. Once you are in, the car leaves Bridgwater on the route that suits the hour rather than the shortest one.

• Indicative 35-60 minutes from Bridgwater to Bristol, given once and then left alone
• Pick-ups at Bridgwater made on the side that tolerates a stationary car
• Collections from Sedgemoor Auction Centre arranged through the desk, not the forecourt
• The car holds on M5 when the kerb outside your door will not take it