Improve those lorry parks
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IA REGULAR reader I find CM th interesting and very ingnative, but as an hgv driver I sh you would do an article out overnight parking and vers' facilities. I am away im home on average three to ir nights a week — with the vent of eight hours driving it uld well mean being away im home even longer.
find that most towns and cis are lacking in opportunities • overnight parking or the avision of washing facilities. rrle towns are positively hasto hgv drivers.
Ne could do with more lorry rks like the one in Southamp1, which is right alongside the ntral swimming baths. The • ry park is tarmac and the ver can have a bath in the dmming baths. It is one of the rv towns where a trucker feels :icome and at ease.
Nhat we do not like are places a Shepherds Bush in London, e last two weeks leading up to ristmas I was away from me nine nights out of 11 and e of those was at Shepherds sh. Opposite, in Wood Lane d the BBC Studios, people )rk in opulent surroundings. ose on the other side of nking life try to park their !or
s and wash themselves in the nost squalor. It's a pity the rneras do not pop over the 3d and see lorries and drivers
e foot deep in liquid mud.
That's the last time I park my Ick on there. The other alternae is to park at Heston on the t. The only snag is that the )d is chronic and parking arges are set to rise from E1 to overnight. I am fortunate my firm pays all expenses, t some drivers are allowed a gain figure and are left to fend • themselves and all expenses me out of that figure.
ckll the drivers at our company, which there are ten, do their y's work and then like to wash d change. you try your best to shake off the old image of cloth cap and overalls, but it is very hard to do with most towns providing no facilities at all.
By the way could you please tell me where I could get a list of lorry parks in and around London area?
MIKE POTTS Quarry Bank West Midlands National Car Parks will supply you with a list of their lorry parks. The RHA security officer at Roadway House, Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H OES might also be able to help. — Editor.