On Tuesday, Leicestershire Roads Policing Unit issued a ticket to a lorry driver who had parked on the hard shoulder after being unable to find a space at a lorry park. In their tweet, officers appeared to show their surprise at the trucker feeling the punishment was unfair, and implied that the driver had not planned his journey well enough. However, the tweet did not go down well with some social media users. In many respects, the whole debacle appears to epitomize the UK's problems when it comes to the driver shortage and lorry parking facilities. 

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