Your van and driver in Bradley Stoke
How it works, what it costs and who turns up.
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What a van and driver is
A van, a driver, a fixed price – and no bidding.
A van and driver is the middle ground between hiring a van yourself and booking a removals firm.
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Van and driver versus man and van
Same idea, better promise.
"Man and van" is what people search for; it usually means one person with their own van, quoted on the phone, paid in cash, and you hope they turn up.
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What fits in each van
We measure in wheelie bins. One bin's worth is about eight bin bags.
Picture a wheelie bin. One bin's worth is a few boxes and bags. Two is a fridge or a washing machine with room to spare. Four is a room.
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How the price works
Fixed prices, the same everywhere.
A move's price depends on how much is moving, not where you live. A wheelie bin's worth is £69 anywhere in England; a full load is £349 in Salisbury, Sheffield or Southend.
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Who turns up
Checked, insured, rated – and paid properly.
Every driver is an independent partner who has shown us their licence, their hire-and-reward insurance, goods-in-transit and public liability cover, and their right to work, before they're offered a single job.
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Lifting, stairs and awkward things
Two people when the job needs them, at no extra cost.
We decide from what you're moving: a sofa, a wardrobe, a fridge, or a medium load and up gets two people, and that's already in the price. There's nothing to choose and nothing extra to pay.
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Booking, changing and cancelling
Two minutes to book. Change it yourself up to 48 hours before.
Book online for today (until 3pm; after that, tomorrow from 1pm) or any day up to about six months ahead, by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
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Same day? Yes, until 3pm.
Today, if you book by 3pm.
Book before 3pm and you can pick today: the earliest one-hour arrival is the hour after next (book at 10:20 and it's 12 to 1), if a partner's free. After 3pm, the earliest is 1pm tomorrow.
About Bradley Stoke
Bradley Stoke at a glance
Bradley Stoke sits across the BS32 and BS34 postcode districts, a short hop from Patchway and Stoke Gifford, with the Willow Brook Centre just minutes from the town centre. Van & Driver is coming soon to Bradley Stoke, bringing together van with driver and man and van services for people moving house, clearing furniture or making tip runs to licensed recycling centres. Once live, the marketplace will let residents arrange a fixed-price van with a driver for moves ranging from single-item collections to full house removals, without haggling over costs beforehand. Bradley Stoke's mix of family homes, student lets near the University of the West of England's Frenchay Campus, and proximity to storage sites like Admiral's Yard Self Storage means demand covers everything from student removals at term time to commercial courier work and furniture delivery for local businesses. The town's position near Bristol Parkway station and the Filton Retail Park also makes it a natural base for next-day van bookings and storage moves, whether that's shifting boxes across town or coordinating a longer trip toward Filton or Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne. When Van & Driver launches here, local partner drivers will be on hand to cover these routes at clear, fixed prices, removing the uncertainty that often comes with arranging a van at short notice. For now, this page sets out what's on the way for Bradley Stoke, ready for the moment bookings open.
Bradley Stoke had 25,194 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Willow Brook Centre, Filton Retail Park and Abbey Wood Shopping Park is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Little Stoke Sort It Recycling Centre, 0.6 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.
