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Felixstowe Port says: We need your help!'
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A leaflet being issued to operators and LGV drivers is designed to improve the implementation of
Operation Stack on the A14. Chris Tindall reports.
ELIXSTOWE PORT is distribiting thousands of leaflets to drivqs explaining how Operation ;tack works in an effort to avoid a -epetition of last month's chaos. Operation Stack turns lanes on he Al4 into truck parks; however, iuffolk Police complained that a ninority of truck drivers refused to 0-operate when it was implenented.Instead,local villages were leluged with LGVs as drivers rttempting to escape the jams; one !river was arrested (CM 29 March). In response, the leaflet We Need 'our Help! is being e-mailed to ,100 haulage companies and ianded out to LGV drivers at the kiffolk port this month.
A port spokeswoman says the leaflet explains how hauliers should act when Operation Stack is implemented; she adds: We do acknowledge there were short comings with the recent implementation of Operation Stack."
A meeting of interested parties was held last week to discuss the problem — Inspector Trevor Sharman of Suffolk Police Roads Policing Unit says a review of Operation Stack is now under way.
"I am going to visit Southampton and Dover and see what we can learn from our partners at other ports," he adds. "The A14 was never intended to be used for the parking of lorries when Felixstowe Port can't operate."
A spokeswoman for the Highways Agency says Operation Stack has been implemented 11 times since October and was successful on most of those occasions.