How much would it cost to tarmac Lincoln farm and Waltham Abbey truckstops.?
Do not clean the cab until the end of the week.
It is like medieval times.Only the transport industry puts up with dirt and mud.
I can remember when almost every cafe’s parking area was like a moonscape,
unless it was a roadside cafe then you would have truck’s parked bumper to bumper along the roadside as far as you could see
tarmac Lincoln farm car park properley about 5 million. if you see the parks in France they grade them smooth.
they’re about 5 times bigger than Lincoln farm… they have to accommodate the weekenders to which there are
stacks
Remember Crick Truckstop anyone? I spent a Christmas Eve trundling an eight legger round the lorry park with a guy in the back chucking tarmac into the craters, however the lads went off to a pub at lunchtime and returned the worse for wear! The roller driver fell asleep and it ran away into a fence, they gave up then and went home but left me with half a load to get rid of. Not surprising nobody wanted it at 3pm on Christmas Eve… 
The last time I went into Leicester Forest South services ( a couple of years or more ago) the surface was a disgrace, hardly fit to take a truck or van over it, has anything been done about it yet? 
Pete.
The way some of the artic drivers screw their wagons around at the cafes and truck stops, its no wonder there are holes and bad surface everywhere. If they came in a bit steadier and maneuvered their vehicles with a bit more care the parks would last longer.
I’ve been in a few (60’s and 70’s) that make you think of that Vicar of Dibley episode where she jumps in the puddle and disappears. 
Strensham Southbound is where they film war movies.The tarmac has holes big enough for a Chieftan tank to hide in.
The loos smell like a badger’ s arm pit.
Stale urine.The meal voucher is useless,unless you want to spend a tenner on a few Big Mac’ s.
windrush:
Remember Crick Truckstop anyone? I spent a Christmas Eve trundling an eight legger round the lorry park with a guy in the back chucking tarmac into the craters, however the lads went off to a pub at lunchtime and returned the worse for wear! The roller driver fell asleep and it ran away into a fence, they gave up then and went home but left me with half a load to get rid of. Not surprising nobody wanted it at 3pm on Christmas Eve…Pete.
Crick, Leicester Forest, you be careful Pete, before you know it you’ll be further down that M1 and end up somewhere you don’t want to be, like Silvertown or Lenham, you’ll have the ghost of Big Tilly or Pup hounding you for pinching their best jobs & you wouldn’t want to get the wrong side of Motor Mouse either.
toby1234abc:
Strensham Southbound is where they film war movies.The tarmac has holes big enough for a Chieftan tank to hide in.
The loos smell like a badger’ s arm pit.
Stale urine.The meal voucher is useless,unless you want to spend a tenner on a few Big Mac’ s.
I hit one there yesterday behind petrol station leaving good job I was not going at any speed or I think I would have done some damage
1970commer:
Crick, Leicester Forest, you be careful Pete, before you know it you’ll be further down that M1 and end up somewhere you don’t want to be, like Silvertown or Lenham, you’ll have the ghost of Big Tilly or Pup hounding you for pinching their best jobs & you wouldn’t want to get the wrong side of Motor Mouse either.
Silvertown, Lenham!!! I thought the route South ended at Northampton? 
Way out of my comfort zone Rob, and Pup’s as well come to that, he got on the M25 and couldn’t find his way off of it. 
Yorkshire and Greater Manchester was our ‘patch’, we only headed South when returning back to the quarry. I did get to Sevenoaks a few times though, they talk funny down there you know. As for Motor Mouse, he is long gone to that highway in the sky, best place for that little ■■■■■ 
Pete.
Hi , I operate the goole lorry park and truckwash, I have a constant battle trying to keep our surface smooth and tidy.we alredy pay a vast amount of business rates for what is classed by the rating authority as ‘unsurfaced land’ they have also told us that if we hard surface the site our business rates will nearly double. So we try and make the best of what we have, last weekend I spent the best part of £1000 on a machine to level the site .Unfortunately the smoother my site is the faster some drivers tend to drive on it, this courses severe washout of the puddles.we have put up 10mph signs to try and slow some drivers down
but this does not seem to work either, it seems the only way to slow some drivers down is the uneven surface, its a catch 22 situation, but I will percivier with trying to keep it level,
“Leaving potholes to slow down lorries…”
Stop nicking Viridor (Ardleys’) ideas; They’ll sue for copyright you know.
Toby, Swindon Truckstop have a great surface; They mix the oil from the fryers with loose road chippings and stale food (of which they have in abundance).
I remember in the late 70S/early 80s a lot of overnight parks, especially in London, were old WW2 bombed sites that had been cleared, on one of these a heavy haulage motor pulled on for the night and ended up with his trailer sinking through the ground (while asleep ) into an old cellar.
How much would it cost to tarmac Lincoln farm and Waltham Abbey truckstops.?
Lorry parks shouldn’t be tarmacced at all. They should be concrete.
Dave the Renegade:
The way some of the artic drivers screw their wagons around at the cafes and truck stops, its no wonder there are holes and bad surface everywhere. If they came in a bit steadier and maneuvered their vehicles with a bit more care the parks would last longer.
I was at an Amazon once, most of which are wide open and you can more or less get straight before you reverse onto a bay. A Royal Mail hero turned up and parked next to me on the trailer park. Nothing on the other side and oodles of space and he did a 90 degree screw. I could hear the tyres inside a closed cab and the tyre marks were all over the floor.
Not too clever is it really
rob22888:
How much would it cost to tarmac Lincoln farm and Waltham Abbey truckstops.?
Lorry parks shouldn’t be tarmacced at all. They should be concrete.
Modern tarmac surfaces can be porous to let rainwater, ■■■■ etc through, Can’t see that with Concrete only an expensive drainage system with gulleys etc.
Ianae
I had to park up at Motis in Dover, that’s a shame too. Also, the toilet is just simply disgusting. Thay charged me £12.50, thats the top of their cheekiness. 
I agree on strensham Servs it’s absolutely awful , potholes are getting bigger on the road out and all the 25 pounds plus they get and prices they charge they should be able to sort it before someone gets hurt or sues them for damage!!!
Muckaway:
“Leaving potholes to slow down lorries…”
Stop nicking Viridor (Ardleys’) ideas; They’ll sue for copyright you know.Toby, Swindon Truckstop have a great surface; They mix the oil from the fryers with loose road chippings and stale food (of which they have in abundance).
As they said on The Simpsons…“It’s funny because it’s true!”
As a couple of posters have mentioned, the sheer number of wheel attendants who can’t reverse in anywhere other than from their own side is staggering, hence bloody tyre and ground ripping U turns for no reason whatsoever.
Place i worked for years where we had mainly 3 axle tipper trailers had a tarmac yard, we never ever U turned in the yard, always reversed into an imaginary side road and pulled straight, the yard lasted donkeys years.