A new safe and secure parking area dedicated to truck drivers has opened at the Quadrante Europa Interport of Verona, featuring 42 parking spaces for heavy vehicles, manoeuvring areas, and transit zones.

New secure HGV park opens at Quadrante Europa Interport in Verona

The Basque Astigarraga Comprehensive Transport Center has been awarded the European Truck Parking of the Year title by the European Secure Parking Association for Trucks for its exceptional level of security and surveillance, as well as quality facilities and services.

“European Truck Parking of the Year” title goes to a Basque logistics centre

Interporto di Prato, an intermodal freight village in the Tuscany region of Italy, has received funding from the European Union and the Italian state to build a new secure HGV truck park. The project aims to improve road safety for HGV drivers and reduce the risk of cargo theft.

Tuscan logistics centre receives funds for new safe HGV parking area with 400 spaces

The appeal about the hastily refused Pembroke Dock HGV park is still on the table, reports the Tenby Observer following the Pembrokeshire County Council’s planning committees' meeting.

Pembroke Dock HGV park plan is still on the table

A secure HGV park with 150 spaces will be built next to the M1 motorway, the most important transit route through Hungary. The facility will be equipped with a hotel for lorry drivers.

Safe HGV park with 150 spaces and driver hotel to be built in Hungary

The Dutch government has assigned 63 million euros to the province of Limburg to build safe HGV parks near fuel stations with places for 2,400 lorries altogether.

HGV park with 2,400 places to be built near Limburg in the Netherlands

Bosch Secure Truck Parking and TRAVIS Road Services are combining their booking portals. This way, with around 400 locations and 15,000 parking spaces in 14 countries, the alliance offers the highest number of parking places in Europe.

Bosch Secure Truck Parking and TRAVIS Road Services combine booking portals

The European Union has facilitated the building of Europe’s largest rest area with places for 400 HGVs in Horsens, Denmark. The EU will allocate 162 million Danish kroner (more than 21 million euros) to the project <a href="https://hsfo.dk/artikel/eu-bl%C3%A5stempler-k%C3%A6mpe-rastepladsvision-med-162-mio-kr-en-gave-i-s%C3%A5dan-en-st%C3%B8rrelsesorden-regner-man-sj%C3%A6ldent-med?fbclid=IwAR0KRA7ayz-wskuCZA2ypc7qyObLnDrtZjMBvDV8Pd-tAwfBeA6STc5WLOw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to reports in Denmark</a>.

Europe’s largest rest area with spaces for 400 HGVs to be built in Denmark

The motorway operator in Westphalia opened the Gescher/Hochmoor rest areas on the A31 motorway on MOnday. They provide new parking places for 143 HGVs, while a truck weighing system will also be added to the site.