Totnes is a small market town at the head of the Dart estuary, and its roads were not laid out for lorries. The A385 from Paignton and the A381 from Newton Abbot meet at the foot of the town, cross the river and continue towards the A38 and Kingsbridge. Any building work, and there has been a good deal on former riverside and industrial land, adds heavy vehicles to those few routes.
The industrial estate on the flat ground beside the Dart, off Babbage Road, is the main employment area and the source of most regular yard and road sweeping. Outside the town the South Hams is farming country with high-banked lanes, where milk tankers, silage trailers and contractors’ machinery leave mud that has nowhere to go but the carriageway.
Coverage around Totnes and the South Hams
Bridgetown, Dartington, Berry Pomeroy, Littlehempston, Staverton and Harbertonford are all covered, and the same operators handle Paignton, Buckfastleigh and South Brent. Kingsbridge, Dartmouth and the coastal villages are a slow drive on narrow roads, so those jobs should be booked ahead as longer hires. Each request is checked for availability.