campaignMay 17, 2022 at 9:06 pm
The queue on the A20 into Dover stretched for miles, as far as the eye could see.
Mark Harcus, a journalist with The Orcadian, and Paddie O’Neill, an HGV driver, with McAdie and Reeve, are currently head…
P&O Ferries restart Dover to Calais trips for tourists today… after losing thousands from its ships being seized during Easter and bank holiday breaks: Passengers return for first time since sacking of 800 staff in MarchP&O Ferries is restart…
A lorry park at a roadside cafe has been given the green light to continue operating, four years after temporary permission ran out.
The Airport Cafe and truckstop on the A20 between Sellindge and Newingreen, near Folkestone, holds up to 25 lorries.
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It has been exactly one month since the Operation Brock contraflow was brought in. The scheme was initially set up to help with post-Brexit queues and prohibits traffic on much of the coastbound carriageway from Maidstone through to the A20 at busy tim…
Channel-crossing mayhem continues: P&O Ferries suspends all services to Calais until Good Friday with thousands of lorries stuck at Dover – as meat industry demands hauliers carrying fresh food are given priorityBad weather, Easter holidays and&nbs…
Lorry drivers forced to sit in queues of up to 26 hours toward Dover or the Eurotunnel say they’ve been treated like “animals” and left with no water, food or toilets.
Stranded truckers have been forced to go to the toilet on the hard shoulder, with th…
Plans to build a 200-space 24-hour lorry park in Kent near one of the county’s motorways have been turned down.
The facility was planned for near Junction 2a of the M26 in Wrotham Heath, between Sevenoaks and West Malling.
Plans submitted show the p…
Problems with a key post-Brexit IT system for customs checks are contributing to Easter traffic chaos in Kent as thousands of lorries are parked up awaiting Channel crossings.A 23-mile coastbound stretch of the M20 was closed from junction eight (Maids…
The M20 has finally reopened to traffic after two days of traffic chaos on Kent’s roads but Operation Brock remains in place en route to Dover.
The 14-mile coastbound stretch between Maidstone and Ashford was shut on Friday, with hundreds of lorries st…
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