eat at a msa?. dont you know theres a ressession on!..besides if i wanted to eat dried up gung on a plate i would take a job where im home every night!.. 
I will never eat at a MSA too expensive and a bit of a horror story in the quality side.
Also last Friday i was behind some poor sod who drives a BMW or other such skateboard for a living with his jacket hanging in the back, He was only haveing a pot of tea and a sausage roll when he anounced to the ■■■■■■■ the till that he was very sorry and all he had was a £50 note. The till girl said it was alright as he hadnt handled the food he could always put the sausage roll back if he hadn’t enough.
only stop at msa, either because of wide loads or to have the weekly degrease,and to empty bouser.thats all they are good for.like others ,find a nice quiet spot,lay buy,or even a pub, landlords are only to pleased for some custom,if you ask first,and pull up in the corner out of the way.and the other thing about msa is the price for parking? i thought that dept for transport were the landlords,which would mean msa can not charge for overnight parking.the CROWN, has rights over any thing.
flapper:
‘…the CROWN, has rights over any thing…’
Wake-up & pay attention! …no Crown rights exist since the EU undemocratically took-over our once British land, fella!
as i normally do 1-2 nights out a week i dont mind dipping in my pocket… but thats only if i stop at a lorry park with the discount meal voucher. other than that i find myself a nice quiet corner or stay on customers premises overnight and self cater. ive just bought myself a mobycooliy 14 litre cool box which is adequate for my week and that contains salards and skimmed milk.
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