MPs back truckstops
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• Extra signs may be erected on trunk roads advertising truckstops.
Permission for improved sign posting has been given by the Government subject to safety criteria and at the discretion of local authorities.
This follows pressure in Parliament for the creation of more truckstops, especially on trunk roads where they can compete with motorway service areas.
Just before MPs left Westminster for the long summer recess, Tory backbencher Tim Janrnan urged the transport department to promote more roadside facilities for lorry drivers and suggested additional signing "to allow them to attract services from motorways and compete with motorway service areas."
In his last Commons appearance as Transport Minister be' fore switching to the Ministry of Sport, Robert Atkins said it was Government policy to sign only motorway serVice areas, but truckstops and other offroute facilities would be allowed in "special circumstances" where there were no service areas within reasonable distance.