- [Home](https://ovmtransport.com/) - [Vehicle movements](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements) - Bideford Vehicle movements / Bideford # Trade Plate Vehicle Movements in Bideford Bideford sits on the River Torridge in North Devon, with the long bridge, East-the-Water on one bank and the town on the other. The A39 Atlantic Highway is the road that actually carries traffic. Barnstaple is the next town east. From Glasgow this is the far south west: M74, M6, M5, A361, then the A39. OVM still runs it as one driven trade plate movement. The estuary is geography. It is not a second product. OVM Ltd, Companies House SC834621. Digital proof of collection and delivery provided. 0141 459 1302. The motor trade work is dealers and independents serving Torridge and the Hartland peninsula, moving stock toward Barnstaple, Exeter or the M5. Auction cars come in after release. A fleet van coming off a job in Appledore or Northam still needs a valid MOT. A retail handover in a steep street above the quay is a person and a signature, not a trailer on the bridge. ## Torridge, two banks, one booking East-the-Water is not the town centre. The river is in the middle. Send the postcode. The A386 comes up from Torrington. The A39 runs toward Bude one way and Barnstaple the other. The old bridge is not how we recommend threading a delivery if the A39 western bypass will do. If the customer is on the quay, the driver needs to know that before they commit to the bypass. Torridge independents often have one unit that has to move and no interest in waiting for a truck that is filling a deck in Taunton. That is the point of plates from a Glasgow office that already runs nationwide work. Appledore's yards and the Northam bypass are not the town centre. A collection that says Bideford and turns out to be a lock up in East-the-Water with no contact will fail before the Long Bridge is even in sight. Put the bank, the gate and the name on the quote. Caddsdown is sheds and a barrier. The quay is parked vans and a tight turn. Westward Ho! is a coastal last mile that is not Bideford even when the booker writes Torridge. Hartland is further still. If the car is in Great Torrington, say Torrington. We will still quote it. We will not guess the bank from the town name. Neighbouring places: Northam, Appledore, Westward Ho!, Great Torrington, Hartland and Barnstaple. Collection in Appledore and delivery in Bideford is one job. Collection in Bideford and delivery nationwide is the same product. There is no main line station in Bideford. The nearest useful rail for a driver after a one way delivery is Barnstaple, on the Tarka Line. We plan the extra hop. Do not invent a Bideford timetable from a railway that is not there. ## Nearest real compound Same honest answer as Barnstaple: BCA Bridgwater on the M5 is the nearest BCA we will name from the sitemap. BCA Bristol is further up that motorway. Manheim Saltash is the Cornwall yard if that is where the lot sits. None of them is in Torridge. A driver collects from Bridgwater after release and drives the A361 and A39. That is the job. Release first. Sequence: [auction collection after release](https://ovmtransport.com/auction-collection). Non runners stay on a transporter. Bridgwater's gate is not Bristol's. Name the compound you actually used. ## What people are actually booking Stock from a North Devon roof to a group site in Exeter or Taunton. A car sold to a customer in a village toward Hartland. A lease return. An auction purchase that has to come off Bridgwater before storage becomes the expensive part of the bid. Site transfer or customer door: [site transfers and retail handovers](https://ovmtransport.com/dealer-delivery). Named contacts. Quay yards and industrial units toward Caddsdown need a named person, not a note that the gate should be open. A height barrier on a Caddsdown unit is not a surprise if you tell the office first. ## MOT, plates, proof Valid MOT. Drivable. Light vans in. HGVs and salvage out. Trade plates do not make a failed test legal on the A39. Light commercial vans in if they are legal. Rigids out. Digital proof either way. Product: [what a driven trade plate vehicle movement actually is](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements). How a Glasgow office covers Devon: [how OVM covers the UK from Glasgow](https://ovmtransport.com/coverage). ## Ask Light commercial vans in if they are legal. Rigids out. Digital proof either way. Same booking as anywhere else. Bideford is not a special product. Same booking as anywhere else. Bideford is not a special product. - Town - Devon Instant Quote0141 459 1302 Most quotes come back within the hour. No account needed to ask. 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 - 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. ## Common questions Anything not answered here, call the team. 0141 459 1302 Which Bideford postcodes do you cover? Every district in and around Bideford, including EX31 and EX39. If yours is not on that list it is almost certainly still covered, because we work right across Devon. Do you cover the areas around Bideford? Yes. A driver working Bideford also covers Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Stratton, Bude and Okehampton. Collection and delivery can be at either end of the same job. ## Related coverage ### Related - [Auction collection after release](https://ovmtransport.com/auction-collection) - [Site transfers and retail handovers](https://ovmtransport.com/dealer-delivery) - [Vehicle collection and delivery with POC and POD](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-collection-delivery) - [What a driven trade plate vehicle movement actually is](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements) - [How OVM covers the UK from Glasgow](https://ovmtransport.com/coverage) ### Nearby towns - [Barnstaple](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-barnstaple) ### Elsewhere in Devon - [Exeter](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-exeter) - [Newton Abbot](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-paignton) - [Barnstaple](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-barnstaple) - [Tiverton](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-tiverton) - [Dawlish](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-dawlish) - [Teignmouth](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements-brixham) ### Other services in Bideford - [All vehicle movements](https://ovmtransport.com/vehicle-movements) ## Got a vehicle that needs moving in Bideford? 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