Here is the list of British motorway services that still remain open to lorry drivers

As Transport Secretary Grant Schapps announced, to make lorry drivers’ life easier, the government developed a website to help plan journey breaks.

Every day our hauliers deliver lifesaving medicines & keep shelves stocked across the country during #Covid_19. To make each journey easier, we’ve developed a website to help plan journey breaks – showing where drivers can access the facilities they need https://t.co/yTMG9LV6n9

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) April 18, 2020

The number of cars on British roads has dropped down to levels last seen in 1955 amid the Covid-19 restrictions on movement, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said when speaking on Sky News. This huge drop in traffic made some cafes and restaurants in motorway services rethink their operation. According to the data provided by the Motor Transport magazine, motorway service area provider Moto has closed 70% of its M&S stores within its network due to the lack of demand caused. 

As fast-food chains had to close their restaurants on 22nd March in the Uk, with the closure of M&S stores, getting hot food is more difficult for lorry drivers. Moto said that they had worked hard to try and keep the M&S stores open for essential workers, but that at particular stores, some days staff had thrown out more than they sold.

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Publishing a list of the services that remain open and offer facilities for lorry drivers, is, therefore, a great help. The British Road Hauliers Association welcomed the launch of the site.

This is helpful to lorry drivers who, when lockdown began, suffered from very silly decisions to shut down toilets and showers, so we welcome this.” – RHA policy director, Duncan Buchanan, said – “However we need the government to ensure the progression  of  the provision of more and better facilities for our lorry drivers and for councils to approve planning permission for lorry parking facilities which have been rejected in the past for no other reason than nimbyism.”