The whole point is certainty.

How it started, and what has stayed the same since 2006

The business was founded on 1 September 2006 and has run on the same principle ever since. Bart Griemink set it up to offer pre-booked executive travel with one person answerable for every journey. It is owner-run, and it has stayed that way on purpose.

Based in Bicker, near Boston in south Lincolnshire, the service was built around the reality of rural travel. People here often live a long way from a mainline station or a major airport, and the usual options do not fit the hours they need to travel. A pre-booked chauffeur does.

The pre-booked promise: everything arranged in advance

Every journey is booked ahead. That is the model, and it is the reason customers come back. When you book, the pickup point, the time, the route and the destination are all confirmed before the day arrives. There is no app to open at 6am, no waiting to see if a car turns up, no negotiating on the doorstep.

The value is simple. You know the car is arranged, you know what time it will be outside, and you know the plan is already in place. For an early flight or an important meeting, that certainty is the entire point.

What a journey looks like

A journey is planned around your schedule, not the other way round. For an airport transfer, the pickup time is worked back from your flight so you reach check-in with time to spare. Your chauffeur arrives before the agreed time, helps with luggage, and drives a route chosen to get you there calmly.

The car is clean, quiet and comfortable, with bottled water and tissues to hand. You can work, make calls or simply sit back and let the driving be someone else's job. On the return leg the same care applies, so after a long flight there is a familiar, pre-arranged car waiting rather than a queue to join.

Areas and destinations covered across Lincolnshire and the UK

The service covers the whole of Lincolnshire, from Boston, Spalding and Grantham through Lincoln, Sleaford and the towns across the county. From there, journeys go anywhere in the UK. Airport and seaport transfers are a large part of the work, with Heathrow the most frequent airport run.

Beyond transfers, the same pre-booked travel suits business trips, events, concerts and evenings out where a confirmed car and driver make the day easier to plan. Wherever the destination, the booking is arranged and confirmed before you travel.

Credentials and trust: licensed, DBS-checked and Guild-accredited

Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services is a member of the British Chauffeurs Guild, holding permit 2722CT. It is licensed by Boston Borough Council, which issues the private-hire car and driver licences the business works under, and it is VAT registered, so trips can be invoiced properly for business travel.

Every driver holds a current DBS check, renewed every three years when the private-hire licence is renewed, along with the medical the licence requires. The cars are a Mercedes-Benz E-Class saloon and an E-Class estate, each seating up to four, and both are inspected every six months, twice as often as the annual MOT the law asks for. A car that sets off for an airport at four in the morning has to be right.

Being owner-run matters here. Bart owns and runs the business, takes the bookings and drives many of the journeys himself. When more than one is running at once he is joined by a second driver he has worked with for years, and at the busiest times by trusted chauffeurs held to the same standard. Whoever is at the wheel, you have booked with one business and dealt with one person, and there is no call centre passing you between departments.

You might recognise the driver

Before the business, Bart Griemink spent fifteen years as a professional goalkeeper. He played in the Football League for Birmingham City, Peterborough United, Swindon Town and Southend United, among other clubs, before founding Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services in 2006.

It still comes up on the road. More than one early-morning passenger has placed him halfway through loading the cases, including a recent booking out of Boston who remembered him from his Peterborough days. The football came first; the habit of being exactly where you need to be, at exactly the right time, turned out to carry over rather well.

Why punctuality is the whole job

A chauffeur service lives or dies on being on time. A missed flight is not an inconvenience, it is a ruined trip and a wasted fare, so the timing is treated as the most important part of every booking. Pickups are planned with margin built in, and the schedule is set in advance rather than guessed on the day.

That is what pre-booked travel is for. The flight is at 07:00, home is a village in rural Lincolnshire, and the alternative is driving a motorway at 3am or leaving a car in long-stay for a fortnight. Booking ahead removes the worry, and on the day everything simply happens as arranged.