You are allowed to park lorries in the coach parking…
Just park at the end to allow their passengers to get off.
If there is a security man or CP ltd employee on site,just ask if it is ok or not.
I have not been fined for parking there.At Strensham both directions.
The first thing to look at in membury has to be the showers. Why run the showers straight of the hot water mains. No cold water going into it, it will take the skin off your back if you stand under it too long,
all the people moaning about having toilets in the truck park, forget that, within a week they will be blocked and wrecked by idiot drivers, what is wrong with walking 200 yards to a toilet? do you not do that when your out shopping with the missus or do you just ■■■■ on the nearest shop front?
Parking should be a little more spacious as it does get tight and i totally agree with the layout of exits for wagons. The amount of times i have had to creep out at services as i cant see, but all it needs is the give way moving and the cars slow down and let the wagons get out. Thats got to be better than having an accident, its as if they are all designed for the flip flops.
Wifi, don’t need it, if you want wifi, go and sit in the restaurant, and spend some of your money. But then again drivers will always want everything for nothing.
One of the main things to address would be the price of parking, £20 for 9 or 11 hours is a rip, almost twice as much as parking in a town centre on a saturday. Especially for very poor or little services, can hardly any longerr get hot food at night, and how come they never sell salads or jacket potatoes? We dont all want fish and chips every night. Believe me im not a salad guru but sometimes i crave greens and the dried up peas you get are ■■■■■■
toby1234abc:
Mike -C, i think they have shelved the rest area idea.
On the French Autoroute they are called “Aire de repos” and are located every 20 or 30 miles.
Free parking,loos and the site is set quite far from the motorway,so you can sleep in peace.
Most are in a forest and have footpaths.
They knew about driver fatique and huge gaps between the main service areas so built these handy little stops.
As normal,the UK is 20 years behind the times.
Thing is, if we had these rest areas in the UK I could just imagine them becoming a hub for all sorts of dodgy activity. Toilets would be a no go, can you imagine the state they’d be in? They’d certainly have to be locked at night. Overall rest areas would require a lot of policing & maintenance, which ultimately is what makes them an extremely hard sell to those in charge. Inconvenient reality of how people in this country treat public facilities, prime example being the mass closure of public toilets over the years.
Showers should be manned.
Pay to get the key, escorted to shower, shown that it is clean and working, when you hand the key back, shower checked and deposit returned.
Off topic a bit, but what the blazes are Stafford S/B services about? Nature called this morning, and it took me what felt like 5 minutes to get back on the M6. I’m sure you could hold a Grand Prix on there!
Hey everyone,
Thanks for the help so far, really good basis to carry out further design work, as soon as I have some legible designs I could post them up if anyone wants to make some further comments/complete slating of design work. Take the rough with the smooth. Makes for better places.
Cheers
There’s always feces in the showers, possibly design a shower basin for all the Brits so when they relieve their bowels in a shower the shower flushes the mess like a toilet would!
God, I’m a bloody genius!
toby1234abc:
Mike -C, i think they have shelved the rest area idea.
On the French Autoroute they are called “Aire de repos” and are located every 20 or 30 miles.
Free parking,loos and the site is set quite far from the motorway,so you can sleep in peace.
Most are in a forest and have footpaths.
They knew about driver fatique and huge gaps between the main service areas so built these handy little stops.
As normal,the UK is 50 years behind the times.
Fixed that for you 
Matt Hopkins:
Hey everyone,Thanks for the help so far, really good basis to carry out further design work, as soon as I have some legible designs I could post them up if anyone wants to make some further comments/complete slating of design work. Take the rough with the smooth. Makes for better places.
Cheers
Most importantly Matt, if you are designing a service station get the HGV parking area right. Many have failed in this.
Ideally spaces should be drive in / drive out. If there are bays which drivers would have to reverse into, they should be on their RIGHT HAND SIDE (the left is our blindside when reversing) with plentiful space for manoeuvring and the bays not too tight together.
FH Hammy:
There’s always faeces in the showers
Quite scary how someone is trusted to drive a lorry but can’t use a toilet properly. Perhaps there should be a DCPC course in toilet training? Or perhaps a sign in the shower areas with something like “if you can read this you can tell this is not a toilet.”
for me you need the normal things that everyone wants like good food hot showers etc but wider spaces to park in instead of being rammed in like sardines i mean when you look at the amount of land within the area they waste a lot.
but as tipper tom said a place to wash your plates etc thats why i would put a camping site style shower block up with a washing up station 
last but not least another area entirly for wobble boxes so they dont come in and take up 2 spaces thus stoping 2 trucks parking for a break due to the fact they cant drive 
Wider parking spots. I had woken up and pulled the curtains and took a picture ■■■■ in a sock when I noticed a unit had his head light taken from his cab from a lorry pulling out. This was at Michael Woods services. I found there a bit tight for the class 1 drivers pulling out from the spaces.
Also only charge for the duration of the time the truck is parked there not charge 24 hours when the truck is going to be there for 9
peirre:
Geesh … I didn`t realise it had come around to this years dissertation season
Why even bother responding if that’s all you have to say?
The guy hasn’t come in with an attitude, he’s been civil and recognises that lorry drivers probably know service stations better than most.
Unless you’re a born moaner, where’s the problem?
For what it’s worth I echo the comment about merging from the pumps, parking areas and so on from the right where the field of vision is poor at best and nearly non-existant at worst.