PLEASE DO NOT KEEP ON TRUCKING

My husband has a chant, which he uses to help keep me going, especially if I'm running. It goes: "Keep on trucking, keep on trucking, keep on trucking,'coz we like to truck". It's silly, but it's rhythmic and it works. However, this doesn't mean we have an affection for truckers. We don't and here is why.

We love to take long drives, especially on A-roads. Now one of the most important things drivers are told by police is take a rest and never drive tired.

Well, the only place to rest on an A-road (because the services are few and far between) is a designated lay-by. So, you're asking why we don't stop in one of those for an hour or so. Well, at night, it is virtually impossible because they are filled with trucks. 

Now, if the truckers/lorry drivers stayed there for an hour or so for a quick rest like they are supposed to, then everything would be fine.

But they don't. They stay there all night. And there aren't just a few. They are in practically every lay-by you come across. The bigger the lay-by, the more damn trucks are in it.

"Well, they need sleep too!", you may be screaming. Correct. And that's why we have service stations/rest stops with sections for trucks and lorries. And there are also official lorry parks, specially for this purpose. Don and I are fed up of not being able to get a break because of damn trucks clogging up the road.

Of course, this only reinforces my point that trucks shouldn't be on the road in the first place. Local trucks delivering to supermarkets is okay, but large artics' and vans should be taking off the road. In the old days most freight that is now carried by road was taken by train and I'm not even talking about necessarily small things. Even cars were taken by train. I still can't understand why this is not the case. It's just ridiculous.

But no. Instead of this, we can't rest in a lay-by because they are always full of anything but cars. 

So, my message to the trucking community is this: We understand you need to rest, but if you need to sleep properly, don't do it in a lay-by preventing long-distance car drivers from having the same privilege. 

Either go to a services station or better still, find a a frickin' lorry park. You have facilities, make use of them instead of causing inconvenience to car drivers.