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Calls for action on parkini
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• A letter urging the government to begin immediate talks on the growing shortage of overnight parking areas for trucks has been sent to Transport Minister John Spellar.
The letter, signed by a group including the Drivers Action Movement, the Transport 8.6 General Workers Union, the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association, offers a set of proposals designed to ease the shortage.
"We want the government to do something immediately," says DAM secretary Jack Crossfield. "We want a meeting with them as soon as possible; ideally within the next two weeks," he adds.
The letter follows a recent meeting of the group which was set up after DAM presented a report to the Parliamentary Transport Select Committee last year.
This showed that only 44% of local authorities in a DAM survey provided overnight parking for trucks.
DAM wants to see overnight truck parks becoming a stan dard feature of every indush development. It believes tl land attached to existing ind trial estates should also adapted for this role.