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It's time to have your Funding runs
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say over truckstops in Scotland
The Highways Agency is consulting the industry over the parking provision of trucKs; it should be prepared for some curt responses. David Harris reports.
HAULIERS WHO ARE fed up with a lack of parking and poor facilities at motorway service areas have been invited to give their views to the Highways Agency (HA). It is asking all road users to comment on roadside facilities so the government can review its advice on motorway services and other roadside rest areas.
JoCammack.director of Belcher Ca mm ack Tra nsport of Sandbach. Cheshire, is among those who plan to contribute: "In recent years things have got worse. I'm mostly in the office nowadays hut at the end of October I went back on the road for a week and I saw why the drivers complain so much,
".1 he service areas are just taking the Mickey. It's all about making money for them."
A Cammack vehicle was recently fined £250 for using a coach park at one motorway site after the driver had paid the .£20 parking fee and was directed to use the coach park by an attendant. Cammack says 17 other vehicles suffered the same fate.
She adds: "After a little investigation I've found that this is a regular occurrence and I'm surprised the haulage industry is taking this lying down," The company has appealed against the fine.
The deadline for responses to the HA consultation is 8 February; this is expected to be followed by revised guidance and a second period of consultation. Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman says: "Our aim is roadside facilities that are maintained to a high standard and meet the needs of all road users."
• In the latest CH/Michelin Business Monitor sunrey ( page 22), 70% of respondents said there was notenough parking in the UK;74% said parking providers were not giving value for money; and 83% said they did not believe planners considered trial drivers' needs when building industrial areas.