WHERE ARE THE SECURE LORRY PARKS?
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continued from page 52 round the clock and have radio contact with central control.
Also in docks territory, but in quite another city, the NCP and Rowe Bros. parks in Leeds Street, Liverpool, are in good spots for driver accommodation. Yet another pair in a dock area are the two Bristol Corporation parks.
The Doncaster facility run by Northern Armoured Car Co. has done exceptionally well right from the start, and has the great advantages of being at a good midpoint for London-Scotland traffic, having a low overnight charge, and being within a stone's throw of many "digs" for drivers.
Dockside and foreshore standings in ports are obviously better than ordinary streets for overnight parking of lorries, and in London the PLA has set aside six specific dock areas for overnight parking of dock-bound lorries, as detailed on p. 52. These are moderately secure but have been poorly patronized—a peak of 414 vehicles in the whole month of November 1965, down to less than 170 by the following February, for instance.
The most obvious reason for this is that, to get the docks in working trim each day, lorries have to vacate these parks by 7 a.m. A driver sleeping some distance away may have to be up pretty early. But PLA cannot easily alter the time without obstructing the day's work in the docks, and they point out that drivers wishing to claim their place in a dock queue, after booking in the previous night, have to present themselves and their vehicles by 8 a.m. anyway.