Regarding your report into the issue of motorway services, and trucks parking in coach bays. This is a very biased and anti-truck report.
I am a truck driver who uses the M5, M6 and M1 motorways on a regular basis, and it infuriates me to see that, yet again, the whole country goes against the truck driver.
We have to abide by tachograph laws, and if I have five minutes left, and the truck bays are full, where do you suggest I park? Is the suggestion that I commit a drivers’ hours offence until I find somewhere suitable?
Coaches are typically parked up to the maximum 45-minute period free of charge at motorway services, while a truck is charged at £30 plus, just to allow the driver to sleep in a cab. Many times I enter services where the coach bays are all empty.
What are the truck drivers supposed to do? It’s about time someone looked at the whole motorway service situation for everyone — they are far too small, and too expensive.
Les Beechey, Evesham
