Panel Verdict

• Some truckstops provide good facilities, but there is a serious shortage of good ones in the right locations. • Parking is expensive — even with meal vouchers on offer. • As a......

Liam Quinn

Owner-driver, Quinn's Transport Shipton-by-Beningborough,York Too few and usually in the wrong place — that's Quinn's verdict on the UK truckstop network. He stresses the point......

Malcolm Millard

Owner-driver, MGM Haulage Southampton As an occasional user of truckstops, industry veteran Millard thinks most are pretty good "but we need a lot more". "I can remember when......

John Hunt

Driver, Brian Palmer Haulage Mendlesham, Suffolk The cost of parking at motorway services and some truckstops is "astronomical", according to Hunt. Although some offer meal......

Paul Arthurton

Owner, Paul Arthurton Transport Norfolk Arthurton's biggest gripe on this issue is that, while drivers are legally compelled to take regular breaks to improve road safety,......

Martin Barnes

Project manager, Charles Gee and Co East Huntspill, Somerset Barnes sums up the UK truckstop network in one word — dire. There are too few of them, and some are of a very poor......

Charles Burke

Owner-driver,TRS Engineering Rhonda Valley Burke believes there aren't enough truckstops, and it is in nobody's best interests to have lorries pulling off to the side of the......