
01Section
Planning an intercity run
We begin with the deadline for arrival and count back from there. First comes a realistic driving time for that corridor at that hour. Then we add the comfort stop, plus a margin that grows with the distance, and that fixes when the car leaves. Skip the margin on a four-hour run and you'll get there late.
Knowing the corridors covers everything else. Drive the M6 through Birmingham at four in the afternoon and it's not the road you'd find at ten in the morning; at one of those hours the toll route earns its fee, at the other it doesn't. North of Milton Keynes, the M1 is rarely free of roadworks. We build all of that in.
- Pickup time worked back from your arrival deadline
- Timed to the corridor, not a blanket average speed
- Toll roads and relief routes judged by the hour you travel
- A contingency sized to the mileage, never one fixed buffer












