NDA-standard drivers for film, TV, commercial, and editorial shoots across Manchester, MediaCityUK, and the North West. Pickup against your call sheet, not against ours.
For line producers & unit managers
A production car isn't a chauffeur car with talent in the back. It's a moving piece of your schedule. The driver needs to know what a wrap is, why the AD's standing on the kerb at 04:45, and that “collect from unit base” means the specific side of the specific street that changed yesterday. R5 has spent three years running that brief for BBC, ITV, Netflix, Channel 4, Sky, and a long tail of independent production companies.
Unit base pickups at MediaCityUK, Dock10, Sharp Project, The Space Project. Talent collection from The Lowry, Gotham, Dakota, or private residences in Cheshire. Location runs to Lake District, Peak District, Yorkshire, and beyond. Drivers carry production passes, sign NDAs as standard, and never post about who's in the back.
Key routes
Talent collection from Manchester Airport T1/T2/T3 direct to MediaCityUK, Dock10, or talent hotel.
Pre-call pickup from The Lowry, Gotham, Dakota, Principal. Driver briefed on the day's call time and wrap estimate.
Lake District, Peak District, Yorkshire Moors, North Wales. Full-day bookings with overnight rates.
Mercedes V-Class and Sprinter for cast and crew runs. Kit in the boot, people in the seats.
Post-wrap long-distance — Manchester to London door-to-door, often with an agent or DoP meeting mid-route.
Multi-stop city-centre runs: hotel, interview, photo shoot, screening, restaurant, return.
What we offer
Every chauffeur on the job signs the production's NDA before they take the car out. No exceptions.
We work from the production's schedule, not a booking form. Changes accepted by text at any hour.
Invoice against PO, itemised by movement and date. Net 30 as standard; net 14 on request.
Same driver assigned for the full shoot so the talent sees the same face every morning.
MediaCityUK, Dock10, The Space Project, Sharp Project, The Factory International — all known gates and access routes.
V-Class for the unit, S-Class for the talent, Range Rover for the director. Same dispatcher coordinates all three.
Local knowledge
MediaCityUK, Dock10, Sharp Project, The Space Project, Factory International, Blue.
The Lowry, Gotham, Dakota, Principal Manchester, Edwardian, Stock Exchange.
BBC, ITV, Netflix, Channel 4, Sky, Red Productions, Lime Pictures.
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