- [Home](https://ovmtransport.com/) - [Blog](https://ovmtransport.com/blog) - Booking checklist Dealers # What to confirm before you book a trade plate driver Dealers already have posts on failed collections, part-ex, one registration and release codes. Controllers still send half a job and then ring at noon asking where the car is. This is the checklist the office runs before a driver leaves. Bookmark it. Hand it to whoever books. Instant quote on this page or call 0141 459 1302. OVM Ltd, Companies House SC834621. Digital proof of collection and delivery provided. 0141 459 1302. Last updated 5 September 2026. Written by the [OVM office](https://ovmtransport.com/about). OVM Ltd, 48 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1BP. Telephone 0141 459 1302. Instant Quote0141 459 1302 Before we show the price This Instant Quote is an indicative price, not a booking. Subject to driver availability. We cover nationwide, but there is no guarantee of acceptance. I agree Your quote Collect Deliver Date required Movement cost Fuel charged separately Request a Callback View PDF Share this quote # Copy link Someone from our team will contact you We have your details and the quote is saved. Most calls go out within the hour during working hours. Share this quote # Copy link 0141 459 1302 **One booking:** One registration **Both ends:** Postcodes and job type **Must be:** Legal to drive **Office:** 0141 459 1302 - Our own software Every job is booked, tracked and closed in software we built for the motor trade. - Always driven Moved under trade plates by a driver, never loaded onto a transporter. - Fully insured Motor trade road risk while the vehicle is driven on our plates. - POC and POD on every job Digital proof of collection and delivery provided when the vehicle is handed over. On this page - The five things that stop a booking leaving the office - What we refuse to pretend - What to paste into the quote notes - Who should own the booking at the dealer - Confirm it, then send the form - Common questions ## On this page - The five things that stop a booking leaving the office - What we refuse to pretend - What to paste into the quote notes - Who should own the booking at the dealer - Confirm it, then send the form - Common questions Need a price? Registration and both postcodes is usually enough to price it. Jump to the form ## The five things that stop a booking leaving the office OVM is a Glasgow motor-trade office. We drive one roadworthy car or van on trade plates, Nationwide. Valid MOT. Digital proof of collection and delivery. Not a transporter. Not a non-runner. 1. The registration. One VRM. Not a stock number. Not "the black Golf on the front row". If you have five cars going the same way, that is five driven jobs or a truck. Plates move one registration at a time. The long answer is on [one registration per trade plate booking](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/one-registration-per-trade-plate-booking). 2. Both postcodes and the job type in one line. Collect and deliver. Plus what the afternoon actually is. Site transfer between your own roofs. Retail handover to a named buyer. Part-ex still on a customer's drive. Auction lot after release. Same plates. Different notes. If you only send two postcodes, the office has to guess. Guessing is how a stock price lands on a customer door. The hub that splits dealer jobs is [dealer delivery](https://ovmtransport.com/dealer-delivery). The method page is [vehicle movements](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements). 3. Roadworthy and legal to drive. Valid MOT where one is required. Drives, steers, brakes. Fuel or charge for the first leg. No MOT is not an OVM job, even if it is "only down the road". We will say so rather than send a driver to fail. See [can you move a car without an MOT on trade plates](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/can-you-move-a-car-without-an-mot-on-trade-plates). 4. Keys, contact and access. A mobile that rings. Someone who actually has the keys. Gate code or yard contact if it is not a public road. Part-ex still on a customer's drive needs that person (or their named stand-in) to be there. "They might be in" is how you buy a wasted journey. See [part-ex collection on trade plates](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/part-ex-collection-on-trade-plates). 5. Release, if it is behind a compound gate. Release code or buyer reference confirmed with the site. Named collector if that yard needs one. We do not dispatch on a hope while storage keeps running. Buying the lot is not the same as being allowed to take it. See [auction release codes](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/trade-plate-release-code-auction), [named collector at the auction gate](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/named-collector-auction-gate) and [auction collection](https://ovmtransport.com/auction-collection). [Dealer delivery](https://ovmtransport.com/dealer-delivery)[Vehicle movements](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements)[Auction collection](https://ovmtransport.com/auction-collection) ## What we refuse to pretend A list of five treated as one plate job. A dead MOT because the distance looks short. A compound with no release yet. A customer who might be in. A switchboard as the only contact. Those become a [failed trade plate collection](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/failed-trade-plate-collection). Confirm first. Then book. [Failed trade plate collection](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/failed-trade-plate-collection)[One registration per booking](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/one-registration-per-trade-plate-booking) ## What to paste into the quote notes Registration. Both postcodes. Date. Company, phone, email. One line of job type. Named contact at each end. Release details if it is auction. Write "van" if it is a van. Examples that work: - Dealer transfer, both roofs manned. - Retail handover after 4, customer aware. - BCA Glasgow after release, into our prep. ## Who should own the booking at the dealer Sales promised a time. Prep has the keys. Accounts has the purchase order. The driver needs one of those people named, not all three arguing after he is in the yard. Put a mobile that answers. If sales owns the customer handover, sales is the contact. If prep owns the stock transfer, prep is the contact. A showroom dump from the switchboard is how a collection window dies. Do not copy last week's notes onto a new registration. Last week was a compound after release. This week is a cul-de-sac. Same plates. Different job. That is enough for Instant Quote. The form on this page. Or 0141 459 1302. In practice ## Confirm it, then send the form Registration, both postcodes, job type, keys and release. Then Instant Quote. Not a half job at noon. Questions ## Common questions Prefer to speak to someone? Call the team. Instant Quote0141 459 1302 Is this the same as a rate card? No. The checklist is what makes a driven quote real. The price is the job on the day, not a mileage chart. Can accounts send a PO without the VRM? We can talk. We cannot finish a driven quote without the registration and both postcodes. Lists are fine. Blank lines are not. What if the car is ready but the buyer is not? Hold the booking. A retail handover without a named person at the door is a failed collection waiting to happen. Tell us when they are actually there. Do you only work with franchise groups? No. Franchise, independent, van centre, auction buyer. Same form. Authority to take the vehicle and someone who knows we are coming. ## Other posts [All posts](https://ovmtransport.com/blog) [Collections ### A wasted journey is usually paperwork, not the drive A wasted journey is usually paperwork, not the drive. Four things fail a collection: no release, no keys, no valid MOT, or the window is shut. OVM will not pretend a driver can magic those. A wasted collection can still attract the fee. Confirm it before we dispatch. Instant quote on this page or call 0141 459 1302. Read the post](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/failed-trade-plate-collection)[Booking ### One car or van per booking. Five cars is five jobs or a truck A trade plate movement is one registration. One roadworthy car or van, one driver, one booking. Dealers sometimes send a list of five and expect one person. That is a transporter load, or five separate driven jobs. Instant quote on this page or call 0141 459 1302. Read the post](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/one-registration-per-trade-plate-booking)[Dealers ### Collecting a part-ex from a customer's drive A part-ex collection is the car still on a customer's drive. Not a compound. Not a dealer roof. Not a sold car going to a buyer. There has to be a named contact who actually has the keys. The car still has to be legal to drive. If they are out, or the V5 is in a kitchen drawer, the job fails. Instant quote on this page or call 0141 459 1302. Read the post](https://ovmtransport.com/blog/part-ex-collection-on-trade-plates)[Auction gate ### Name the collector before the driver sits in the lane The compound will not release a lot to a stranger at the barrier. Buying it is not naming who is collecting. OVM has to be the named collector, with identification and plates, before a driver is sent. If you name nobody, the driver waits in the lane and storage keeps running. Instant quote on this page or call 0141 459 1302. 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If one of them is missing, fix that first. Call 0141 459 1302. Office in Glasgow. Work Nationwide. Instant Quote0141 459 1302