Drivers deserve better conditions
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HOW much longer must lorry drivers suffer at the British Customs post at Newry in Ulster? Billy Bittles, writing in The Highway, paints a grim picture of a bomb-shattered dump in the middle of a "very steep hill" where "dozens of lorries" are parked while drivers, who may have to walk a quarter of a mile or more to the post, wait in an old concrete garage for their documents to be cleared.
Food can be bought from mobile stalls outside but there are no lavatories or other civilised amenities. Stones from angry residents' garden walls are used as chocks behind lorry wheels, but, even so, vehicles have run away and crashed through walls and into ditches.
Are those who necessarily risk their lives daily to keep Ireland's battered industry going not entitled to a little more.