Your van and driver in Marlow
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 Marlow
Marlow at a glance
Marlow, tucked into the SL7 postcode on the Buckinghamshire bank of the Thames, sits just over two miles from Cookham and a little further from Bourne End, with High Wycombe within easy reach beyond the fields to the north. Van & Driver is coming soon to Marlow, bringing a straightforward way to book a van with a driver at a fixed price for the sorts of moves that crop up in a town like this: a sofa collected from near Liston Court, a student's belongings moved ahead of term at Buckinghamshire New University's Wycombe campus, or a load taken to a licensed recycling centre. Once live, the marketplace will connect people in Marlow with local partner drivers covering house removals, furniture delivery, tip runs, next-day van moves, storage moves and commercial courier work, alongside the classic man-with-a-van service for smaller moves. The idea is to take the guesswork out of hiring a van locally, with the price agreed upfront rather than negotiated on the day. Marlow's position close to Cookham, Bourne End and the wider High Wycombe area means many of these moves will naturally involve short hops between the town and its neighbours, and the service is being built with those everyday routes in mind. We'll confirm here as soon as booking opens for Marlow and the surrounding villages.
Marlow had 14,641 people at the 2021 Census. Furniture and flat-pack from Liston Court, Cliveden View Shopping Centre and Wycombe Retail Park is a common single-item run. The council's nearest recycling centre is High Heavens Household Recycling Centre, 2.4 miles away; a tip run with us goes to a licensed recycling centre, with the disposal in the price.
