Trade plate vehicle movements in Alton, East Hampshire

The A31, the A32 and the roads around Alton

The A31 does most of the work. It takes a car west to Winchester and the M3, or east through Farnham to the A3 and Guildford. The A32 runs south towards Wickham and the Gosport peninsula, and the A339 is the road to Basingstoke. We plan each collection around the route the car will take rather than promising a same day slot.

Alton station sits on the line to London Waterloo via Aldershot, which gives our driver a reliable way home after a one way delivery. We build that return into the schedule when we book you in.

Plenty of our Alton work involves the villages and towns close by. Four Marks, Holybourne, Bordon, Petersfield, Alresford and Farnham all turn up on the same bookings. Collecting in Four Marks and delivering to Alton is one job, and so is collecting in Alton and delivering to Glasgow.

Collecting auction lots from BCA Camberley for Alton buyers

There is no auction compound in Alton itself, so most local buyers collect from BCA Camberley over the Surrey border. Once the lot is released, our driver takes it straight from the gate to your forecourt on the A31. BCA Crawley is the next option to the east, and Wilsons Auctions Maidstone in Kent is worth booking if that is where you bought.

We confirm release with the site before anyone sets off, because a hammer price on its own will not get a car through the barrier and storage keeps running while you wait. Read how we handle auction collection after release.

The lot has to be roadworthy. Trade plates cannot make a non runner legal to drive and salvage cannot travel on them, so for those we will point you towards a transporter before a collection slot is wasted.

Dealer stock, part exchanges and retail handovers in Alton

Most Alton bookings are a single car that needs to move now. It might be forecourt stock still sitting at a group site in Guildford, Basingstoke or Southampton, a part exchange heading to auction once it is legal to drive, or a sale promised to a customer in Winchester or Reading.

A handover to a private buyer in a quiet street off the High Street is a different task from leaving keys with a duty manager on a compound, so tell us which you need. See how we run site transfers and retail handovers. A named contact at each end matters, because a locked yard behind the A31 with nobody answering the phone costs everyone a day.

Fleet and lease returns work the same way. A roadworthy car leaving an employee's address in Alton for a remarketing site gets the same driver, the same checks and the same proof.

MOT, condition photos and proof of delivery

Each vehicle needs a valid MOT where one is required, tax and enough fuel or charge to reach the first filling or charging point. Light commercial vans are welcome on the same terms, though we do not move HGVs.

Before the car leaves, our driver records the panels, mileage, keys and paperwork and notes who released it. The receiver signs at the other end, and you get proof of collection and proof of delivery together in one report. Here is how vehicle collection and delivery with POC and POD works step by step.

Motor trade road risk insurance covers the car from collection until it is signed for, and fuel or charging is included. Learn more about driven trade plate vehicle movements and how OVM covers the UK from Glasgow.

Booking a movement from Alton

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Prefer to talk it through? Call 0141 459 1302 or email [email protected]. OVM Ltd is registered in Scotland under SC834621 if you need the details for Companies House.