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Tavistock holds 12,675 people on PL19 on the western edge of Dartmoor. A route planner looking at a load leaving here will frequently suggest crossing the moor. A driver who has done it once will not.
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International movers meet unfenced moorland roads. Ponies, sheep and cattle stand on the tarmac and have right of way in every practical sense, and a loaded vehicle cannot brake the way a car does. Cattle grids, blind summits and single track sections with passing places complete the picture.
None of it is dangerous at sensible speed. All of it is slow, and a moor crossing that looks like a saving of fifteen miles routinely costs half an hour and a good deal of the driver's attention.
For international movers, livestock on an unfenced road is the main reason. A driver has to assume an animal will step out and drive accordingly, which on a laden vehicle means a speed well below the limit for long stretches.
Then the surface and the shape of it. Cattle grids, sudden dips, blind summits and sections where two vehicles cannot pass without one reversing. It is fine, and it is not a route to put a container lorry on when a longer road exists.
A moving company reaches properties out towards the moor by lanes with the usual Devon banks, and some have cattle grids on the approach with their own weight considerations.
Say if yours does, and send a photograph from the gate. A grid, a ford or a gate that has to be opened and closed behind the vehicle are all things a crew would rather know about the week before.
Volume and destination set the shipping. Locally the approach lane and the run south to the A38 are what add hours.
Metered on volume
around £930 to £1,880
Sharing with other households
around £1,750 to £3,350
One container, yours alone
around £4,730 to £6,850
One container, yours alone
around £7,520 to £11,880
A quote that assumes a moor crossing has assumed a journey time nobody achieves. The county page carries the wider bands.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Plymouth is fifteen miles south and holds most of the capacity within reach, with Okehampton and Launceston closer for some routes.
Ask which way they would leave. A firm that says south to Plymouth and onto the A38 has driven it; one that talks about cutting across the moor has looked at a screen.
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Add the approach to the file: the lane, any cattle grid, any gate, any ford. It is not a customs matter and it decides which vehicle is sent and how the day is planned.
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It should not. Unfenced roads with livestock, cattle grids and single track sections make it slow for a loaded lorry.
South on the A386 to Plymouth and onto the A38. Longer on a map and faster in practice.
A driver has to assume an animal will step out, which on a laden vehicle means well below the limit for long stretches.
Say so at the enquiry. Grids have their own weight considerations and a crew would rather know the week before.
Any gate that has to be opened and closed, any ford, and the width of the lane at its tightest.
Yes, across PL19 and PL20 and the western moor.
Where Tavistock enquiries usually look next.
Conditions on moorland roads vary with the season, the weather and where the livestock happen to be. Routing notes reflect collections partner movers have run in west Devon. Prices quoted date from the year to August 2026.
Livestock have right of way in practice on unfenced moorland roads.
Send the PL19 postcode, the destination, your date, a rough inventory and a photograph of the approach.
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County detail, the terminal run and the full price bands sit on the Devon international removals page.