Your van and driver in Farnborough
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 Farnborough
Farnborough at a glance
Farnborough sits in the GU14 postcode area, with Frimley just two and a half miles away and Aldershot barely further along the same stretch of Hampshire. It's a town shaped by its retail parks and rail connections rather than any single high street, with Solartron Retail Park and Princes Mead both close to the centre, and Farnborough (Main) and Farnborough North stations giving quick routes out towards Fleet and beyond. Van & Driver covers this patch with a straightforward booking system: pick a move, get a fixed price, and go, whether that's a single armchair crossing town or a full house move heading out to Frimley or Aldershot. Prices are set before you book, so a full van load within Farnborough or over to Frimley or Aldershot comes to £249, with the same single-item and half-van rates applying across all three routes. Head towards Fleet and the price shifts only slightly, to £249 for a full van. For those clearing a flat near North Camp or shifting stock between the Wellington Centre in Aldershot and a storage unit on Hawley Lane, the same fixed-price approach applies throughout, covering everything from tip runs to a licensed recycling centre to student removals timed around term changes at the nearby Farnham and Guildford campuses. Whatever the move, the price is agreed upfront, with no surprises once the van arrives.
Farnborough had 60,665 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Solartron Retail Park, Princes Mead and The Wellington Centre is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is Rushmoor Borough Council Recycling and Waste Transfer Station, 0.0 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.
