Tayside Stop
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PRIZES of portable colour telev sion sets and cash of up £1,000 are being offered to a tract customers to the Taysic Truck Stop, an overnight parkin and restaurant facility bein built by a Dundee textile hauliei Road Haulage Associatio national chairman Harold Ru sett will open the Truck Sto built at a cost of £300,000 t Parxon, a subsidiary of P. Ridgway, on Friday next week.
The park at Smeaton Roa Kingsway West, on the city rir road, will provide secui overnight parking for 100 lorrii and overflow accommodatic for 40. They will be guardt against theft and vandalism I closed circuit cameras and video recording system.
In addition to a Shell Die: service, the Truck Stop is alon side an existing Ridgway cent' a Veeder Root tachograph cent and an ERF service centre. A C dealership will open there fore the end of the year. B. restaurant, recreation and waF. ing and toilet facilities are bell provided and the company using the new service promote the RHA's new Carc fax information.
To generate interest in t Truck Stop, the company circ lated details throughout Brita painted adverts on two Ric way lorries and is offering attr. tive competition prizes to drivE using the centre.
Initial research has suggest that there is a limited dema for overnight accommodation Dundee, but the company looking at the possibility of extension to accommodate drivers. As a temporary meast. it may erect portable sleepi accommodation.
Tayside Truck Stop has be built with the help of the Scotti Development Agency, which undertaking a major urban ri cue programme in Dundee, a will replace a city-centre parki area which is in a site earmark in the SDA project.