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TRUCKSTOP * UK - Residents consider options
"The villagers are not anti-truckers - instead they are trying to find a solution to the problem"
Cambridgeshire,Bar Hill,UK -Road Transport -14 January 2008: -- Residents and businesses in the Cambridgeshire village of Bar Hill are investigating if it will be possible to establish a truckstop in the area to prevent LGVs parking in the street. Resident Alan Choat contacted CM to say that villagers in Bar Hill are fed up with the streets being filled with parked trucks that have come off the nearby A14: "We have a big problem in the village with LGVs parking overnight. They cause an obstruction, they damage the kerbs and verges, they cause pedestrians to walk in the road and the drivers tend to throw rubbish out of the window"... Choat says the villagers are not anti-truckers - instead they are trying to find a solution to the problem...
* Truckstop closures threaten safety, says survey
London,UK -Commercial Motor/Road Transport, by David Harris -14 January 2008: -- More than three quarters of UK hauliers questioned for a Freight Transport Association (FTA) survey report that recent truckstop closures are causing problems... The shortage of truckstops in the UK has been made worse by the closure of several sites in 2007... The FTA's latest quarterly activity survey confirms that the truckstop crisis has put the security of drivers and their loads at risk with one in five operators talking of significant additional security risks. This is especially so where loads are of high value or vulnerable to theft or terrorist attack, such as fuel tankers... One in seven operators also report problems with complying with the hours rules because there is nowhere to stop to take breaks one in ten have had to change routes as a result...
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