Household moves from London to 25 cities, run by one London crew in one van: loaded once, driven in a day on most routes, and priced as one written quote, crew time on a published card plus the distance. No per-mile meter, no shared loads, and no local base pretended at the other end.
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A long-distance move with us is one London crew and one van, loaded once at your London address and unloaded once at the destination: no transfers, no shared loads. It is priced as one written quote for the whole job, built from the crew time on our published card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour) plus the distance on your route. The worked illustrations run from £405 of crew time to Reading up to £977.50 to Edinburgh. Most routes are finished in a day; Scotland is staged over two.
Each route has its own page with the drive, the destination rules and the worked illustration in full. The crew-time figures below are the illustrations from those pages, so the number you see here is the number the route page shows.
About 60 miles up the M11, around 1.5 hours of driving
1-bed flat, 5 hours of crew time, at 2 Men £85 per hour
The drive is the easy part of this route. The historic centre bans loading between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Saturday, so the whole day is timed backwards from your delivery slot, not from the motorway.
The London to Cambridge pageAbout 120 miles up the M40, 2 to 2.5 hours of driving
2-bed house, about 7 hours of crew time, at 2 Men £85 per hour
A Class D Clean Air Zone inside the ring road charges £8 a day for a vehicle that does not meet the standard, and the chargeable day runs midnight to midnight, so an evening arrival is planned carefully.
The London to Birmingham pageAbout 120 miles down the M4, 2 to 2.75 hours of driving
2-bed home, 7 hours of crew time, at 2 Men £85 per hour
The Clean Air Zone takes £9 a day from a vehicle that does not meet the standard, and the last mile decides the day: Clifton and Redland are hill carries on steep streets, not simple kerbside drops.
The London to Bristol pageAbout 200 miles up the M1 and M6, around 4 hours of driving
2-bed home, 8.5 hours of crew time, at 2 Men £85 per hour
No Clean Air Zone charge at all on this route. The live choice is the M6 Toll, £20.20 for a van, weighed against roughly 25 minutes saved at peak; your written quote states which way the crew runs.
The London to Manchester pageThe other 21 routes, with the crew-time illustration from each route page (2 Men at £85 per hour, crew time only, labelled illustration only on the page itself). A town near one of these routes can usually be priced on the same run: ask when you request your quote.
An early start, a single load, and the crew home the same evening.
A full crew day on the road, still loaded, delivered and home in one day.
The North, the far South West and Scotland. Scotland is staged over two days, and the page for each route says so plainly.
Two elements, both visible before you book: the crew time, priced from our published hourly card, and the distance element for the route. There is no per-mile charge and no meter running on the day. Our long-distance removal costs guide works through the pricing in more depth.
| The move | Crew-time workings, from the published card | Crew-time element |
|---|---|---|
| London to Reading: a 1-bed flat, one load | 2 Men at £85/hr: load, about an hour of driving, unload = 4.5 hours of crew time | £405 |
| London to Cambridge: a 1-bed flat, one load, keys ready | 2 Men at £85/hr: load 2 hours, drive about 1.5 hours, unload 1.5 hours = 5 hours of crew time | £425 |
| London to Birmingham: a 2-bed house, one load, keys ready | 2 Men at £85/hr: load 2.5 hours, drive about 2.25 hours, unload 2 hours = about 7 hours of crew time | £595 |
| London to Bristol: a 2-bed home, one load | 2 Men at £85/hr: load, about 2.5 hours of driving, unload = 7 hours of crew time | £595 |
| London to Manchester: a 2-bed home, one load | 2 Men at £85/hr: load, about 4 hours of driving, unload = 8.5 hours of crew time | £765 |
| London to Newcastle: a 2-bed home, one load | 2 Men at £85/hr: load, about 5 hours of driving, unload = 9.5 hours of crew time | £855 |
| London to Edinburgh: a 2-bed home, staged over two days | 2 Men at £85/hr: 11.5 hours of crew time inside the staged plan | £977.50 |
Illustration only. The crew-time elements above are priced from our published hourly card so you can check the arithmetic. A long-distance quote prices the whole move, crew time plus the distance element, and the written quote you receive before booking is the price you pay for the agreed scope.
Crew-time elements from our published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour), checked October 2026. Distances and drive times are typical figures for each corridor; zone charges are the destination councils’ published charges, October 2026.
The crew is working for the road hours as well as the carrying, which is why the crew-time element grows with distance. It is also why a motorway route and a cross-country route of the same mileage do not price the same.
Fuel sits inside the distance element of your written quote, worked out for the whole run, London to destination and back. Nothing is added at the pump on the day.
The M6 Toll is the main one, at £20.20 for a van-class vehicle. If your route uses a toll, it is in the quote before booking; if the crew runs the free road instead, that choice is stated too.
Birmingham charges £8 a day and Bristol £9, Bath £9, Sheffield £10 and Newcastle £12.50, but only a vehicle that does not meet the zone standard pays. Cambridge and Manchester charge nothing. Scotland’s zones cannot be paid at all: a vehicle that does not meet the standard stays out of the centre.
Most routes finish in one day. Scotland is staged across two, and if any job genuinely needs an overnight, it is planned and priced in the written quote before booking, never improvised on the road.
Parking suspensions are charged by the borough or council at each end, and stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, exactly as on a London move. Both are confirmed in the quote where they apply.
A long-distance move is a single day with a shape to it. The departure is set backwards from the destination, the load is built in delivery order, and the same crew who loaded your home in London are the crew who place it at the other end.
Packing is finished, by you or by the crew if you booked it, and the departure time is set backwards from the destination: a building slot, a centre loading window, or simply the hour your keys are released.
The morning load, packed for a long drive rather than a short hop: everything blanketed and strapped, the load built in delivery order, essentials and first-night boxes last on.
One van, your load on board from door to door. The crew run the planned corridor and keep to the timing the destination end needs, rather than racing the clock at the far end.
Everything carried in and placed room by room as labelled, beds and wardrobes rebuilt where booked, and the load checked off with you before the crew leaves.
The crew travel back to London the same day on most routes, and that return is inside your quote, not an extra. On Scotland runs the return is day two of the staged plan.
Edinburgh and Glasgow are about 400 miles, with 7 to 7.5 hours of driving alone. Nobody does that safely either side of a load and an unload, so Scotland moves are staged: day one loads and runs the bulk of the road, day two delivers, places and returns. The plan, including where the loaded van rests, is in your written quote.
Completion dates do not always line up. If there is a gap, the load goes into a storage unit you rent in your own name, at the London end or near your destination, and we deliver out of it when the new place is ready. You hold the storage contract and the access; we run the transport on both days, each priced by the time it takes. Our storage solutions page explains how the two bills fit together.
Four hours on a motorway is harder on furniture than four streets across London, so packing matters more on these moves, not less. Book the crew to pack and it is done the day before, as crew time on the same card, so the morning is spent loading. Boxes are £5 each, protective wrap £15 and tape £10 per roll, priced openly on our packing services page.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
| The question | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| How is it priced? | A per-mile rate, or a total that is only confirmed once the van is loaded | One written quote for the whole job: crew time on a published card plus the distance, confirmed before booking |
| What happens to your load? | On shared-load models it can travel with other customers’ loads and transfer between vehicles | One van, loaded once in London and unloaded once at your destination |
| Who turns up at the far end? | On platform models, a subcontracted crew local to the destination, who did not load the van | The same London crew who loaded it, and who know what is on board and in what order |
| When does it arrive? | A delivery window that can stretch over days on shared-load models | A date and a planned arrival time, set backwards from your destination’s rules and slots |
| If something changes? | A call centre between you and the crew | The office that quoted you, and a crew you can speak to directly |
Based on how long-distance moves are commonly sold in this market: per-mile quotes, shared loads and subcontracted destination crews. Checked October 2026. The rows describe models, not named firms.
Content updated October 2026
Official sources: GOV.UK’s list of Clean Air Zones in England and the zone charges published by Birmingham, Bristol, Bath, Sheffield and Newcastle’s councils; the published M6 Toll tariff for the Manchester corridor; the Scottish Low Emission Zone schemes for Edinburgh and Glasgow. Prices are our own published hourly card, and every route illustration on this page is taken from the route page it links to.
If both addresses are in London, the route pages are not the ones you need. These are.
Send both postcodes, your date and a rough list of what is moving. The quote comes back in writing with the crew, the plan for the day and the whole price. No deposit, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move.
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Published rates, a written quote, and no deposit. The fastest way to price a long route is to send both postcodes and your date.
07459 180023It is priced as one written quote for the whole job: the crew time on our published card (Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 per hour, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum) plus the distance element for your route. The worked illustrations on the route pages give the shape of it: a 1-bed flat to Cambridge carries a crew-time element of £425, a 2-bed house to Birmingham £595, and a 2-bed to Edinburgh £977.50, each labelled illustration only. Your written quote confirms the full price for your move before you book. No deposit, free cancellation up to 24 hours before, quotes valid 7 days, and payment at the time of service.
Our crew and van are based in London and travel out to your destination and back, so a long-distance move with us starts at a London address. We run 25 routes with their own pages, including Cambridge, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester, and the route cards on this page link to every one. If your town is not listed, ask: destinations near a route we already run can usually be priced in the same written quote. We do not have a local base in the destination cities, and we will not pretend otherwise; what you get is a London crew who know the run.
No. There is no per-mile meter and nothing is added for distance on the day. The written quote prices the whole agreed job in one figure: the crew time, priced from the published hourly card, and a distance element that reflects the route, the drive time and the costs of the road. The route pages show the workings for their illustration so you can check the arithmetic before you ask for your own quote.
The honest list is short. Drive time is crew time, so a longer route carries more of it. Fuel and any tolls on the route, such as the M6 Toll, are as stated in your written quote. A Clean Air Zone charge applies on some routes, but only where the vehicle does not meet the zone standard. Parking suspensions at either end are charged by the borough or council, and stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, as on any move with us. Packing, if you book it, is crew time too. Anything that applies to your job is in the written quote before you book, not discovered on the day.
Only some destination cities charge, and only a vehicle that does not meet the zone standard pays. Seven charging zones operate in England, including Birmingham (£8 a day) and Bristol (£9 a day); Cambridge and Manchester have no charging zone at all. Scotland is different: Edinburgh and Glasgow run Low Emission Zones where a vehicle that does not meet the standard cannot be driven into the centre at all, so there is no charge to pass on. Whether any zone charge applies to your move is confirmed in your written quote.
Most routes, yes: the crew loads in London in the morning, drives, unloads and places everything at the destination, and travels back the same day. Cambridge, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester are all planned as one-day moves. Scotland is the honest exception: Edinburgh and Glasgow are about 400 miles, so those moves are staged across two days with the plan agreed in your written quote. Either way, the timetable is set out before you book, including the departure time that the destination end needs.
Your written quote prices the agreed job, so ordinary traffic on the route does not change the price. If the job itself changes, for example more to move than the agreed list, or access at the destination is different from what was described, any extra time is charged at the same hourly rate shown at booking and agreed with you before the work is done. Nothing extra is charged silently.
Yes. Your load is loaded once in London, travels in the one van, and is unloaded once at the destination. It is not transferred between vehicles or mixed with another customer’s load on the way. On the longest routes the van and crew rest with the load secured; the staging plan is in your written quote.
Yes. Packing is booked as crew time on the same card, usually the day before the move on a long route so the morning is spent loading, not boxing. Materials are priced openly: boxes £5 each, protective wrap £15, tape £10 per roll. A long drive is harder on furniture than a short one, so the crew blankets and straps everything as standard, whether you pack or we do.
Then the load goes into storage for the gap, on the transport model: you rent a unit in your own name at any storage operator, at the London end or near your destination, and we load your belongings into it on move-out day and deliver out of it when your new place is ready. Each run is priced by the time it takes. We do not run a storage facility ourselves, so the unit, the rent and the access stay yours throughout.
As soon as you have your date. Long routes take a full crew day, so the diary fills faster than for local moves, and completion days, usually a Friday, go first. Two to four weeks is comfortable on most routes; Scotland is better at four. If your dates are flexible, say so when you ask for a quote: a weekday outside the Friday peak is often easier to place, and the quote says so if it makes a difference.
No. Passengers cannot travel in the van, so please make your own travel arrangements to the destination. The crew will agree an arrival window with you before the day, and someone needs to be at the destination to receive the load.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Headed somewhere specific? Start from the route cards above, or send both postcodes with your quote request and the route is confirmed in writing.
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