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• Overnight parking facilities at Dover's Eastern Docks will close
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this summer to make way for two new !'erry berths—meaning that the nearest parking facilities will be in France.
Robin Doddridge, landside services manager for Dover Harbour Board, says there is still parking for trucks wanting Customs and for unaccompanied trailers but there are currently no alternatives in place for drivers.
He is about to start talks with the city council and Highways Agency about new facilities, but says that Calais has opened extra freight parking so drivers can park up on the other side of the Channel. George James, who runs West Midlands-based James International Transport, points out drivers still need parking facilities at Dover: "If you park at Calais you are at nsk of illegal immigrants so many drivers plan to have their daily rest in Dover. They may run out of hours when they come off the ferry—how do you explain to the mmn. istry that your driver's contravention of hours was because there was nowhere to park?"
Jack Crossfield of the Drivers' Action Movement says he has already sent a petition to the government's Select Transport Committee about truck parking: "The European Union and local government implement driver restrictions but don't provide a safe environment to park. The M20 is often blocked because of foreign strike action and we will have to go that way to draw attention to us if there is no concern about our cause."