largebloke1969:
Daytrunker:
daftvader:
Daytrunker:
Best one found so far is Sedgemoor M5 N £18 with £7 food voucher showers half decent aswell.As a bonus the blonde girl in WH Smiths is gorgeous
I’ll take your word for that.i’m now going in to pay.lol.
Was she working? Only a dot of a girl and I would lol
you wouldnt coz she wudnt let u lol
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I know but oh well lol 
muckles:
David H:
To park a truck at an average (£20 a night) MSA or Truckstop for 6 nights a week for a month is about the same price as a mortgage on a starter home. Its free in France.But you’ve already paid the privilege of using their private motorway to get to the French Service station.
True…as is the case on the M6 Toll…I wrote the post more as an comparison. I’ve never paid at any of the Routier restraunts or the service stations on the free french roads. My argument is that if parking charges were abolished some of the extra money may end up in the pay packet of drivers. I cant understand why drivers defend it other than they know no different or argue the negative whatever the topic.
David H:
muckles:
David H:
To park a truck at an average (£20 a night) MSA or Truckstop for 6 nights a week for a month is about the same price as a mortgage on a starter home. Its free in France.But you’ve already paid the privilege of using their private motorway to get to the French Service station.
True…as is the case on the M6 Toll…I wrote the post more as an comparison. I’ve never paid at any of the Routier restraunts or the service stations on the free french roads. My argument is that if parking charges were abolished some of the extra money may end up in the pay packet of drivers. I cant understand why drivers defend it other than they know no different or argue the negative whatever the topic.
I was being slightly tongue in cheek with my answer, 
It’s true parking is free at most services and truckstops in other EU countries or if you do pay the total cost of parking is refunded once you pay for a meal or it’s has proper secure parking.
I don’t know the relative costs of running a truckstop in the UK compared with say Germany, but I’m sure that if they made that much for charging to park, you’d have more opening up and the likes of BP wouldn’t have sold their ones off and various other cafe’s wouldn’t have closed. The same goes with the MSA’s (I believe they don’t actually own the land, but rent it from the government)
However despite charging many are full to capacity on a weekday night, again if they made a fortune from the trucks parked there they’d be competing to attract truck drivers to stop increasing the parking area laid down for trucks.
I don’t like the situation, even though it doesn’t often affect me, and I don’t know what the solution is except for government action on truck facilities, and earmarking certain area of land for truck parking, but as nobody has ever manged to make the mythical over spill park for truck waiting on operation stack which closes a motorway we really stand bugger all chance of getting anything else.
Place I’m in tonight has free parking clean showers with fresh towels $10 or free with 50 gallons of fuel a separate drivers resturant a drivers tv room separate restrooms for drivers and a huge shop you can just about anything in. The difference is that the drivers go in and spend money and not just eat in the truck
Although with few exceptions you are eating ■■■■ out of a box, prepared by a minimum wage worker. The stuff in the shop is twice the price it would be in a supermarket and if you was in a supermarket you would buy something else, the parking may be free, but you pay through the nose for everything else, even the showers, the cost of running them is all added on to what you pay at the pump or in the shop. You get nothing for nothing 
Luke is correct about Lymn.I have only seen no more than four in there eating a meal.
One night i walked to the village.Not recomended without a torch or hi viz on.Lots of bends and fast cars.
At Cherwell Valley M40,you can walk out the truck park to the small hamlets in the lane to a cosy pub with a log fire.
Clacket Lane is £30 to park.With that you get a £11 meal voucher to have two main dishes.
Lincoln Farm is quite cheap to park and secure.It fills up by 18.00 or earlier with 200 plus trucks a night.
One to try is Pjm by Coventry airport.Homemade food.Vlean showers.Lounge with leather sofas or chill out room with plasma tv.
The best value one is The Stockyard.Locals come in.Good ambience and friendly staff.
chester1:
Not being picky just a point. they don’t claw it back in tax they just don’t pay tax on that £28 so the firm still £20 ish out of pocket
but the point being is they think its not a problem if the company is paying so they bang it up as high as they think they can get away with it,after all these truck stops are businesses too and want to make as much profit as possible.
im not 100% but didn’t truck stops used to be owned by the government and got subsidized so the drivers could eat cheap ? or was that just a weird dream I had… 
switchlogic:
Because they often provide such a crap service they can’t make the money elsewhere, food etc. Just look at the German truckstops, if they charge it’s a small amount that you can use towards a meal. A good meal in a nice restaurant, along with a big shop selling quality stuff you actually want to buy. in contrast look at Lymm for example. Not sure I’ve ever seem more than Hal a dozen eating there at any one time and as for the shop…In the UK they want to screw the maximum amount of money from you for the least amount of effort.
got it in one there luke.
regards dave.
benbailey81:
Because they can charge that much. They’re full at times so people are obviously prepared to pay. I agree though. It is an extortionate amount to charge
Absolutely. Simple supply and demand which is why prices vary around the country. Clacket Lane and Cobham are expensive compared to truck stops off the beaten track because they are on very busy routes. It’s also the reason why food or anything in the MSA shops are so much more expensive because they know people would rather just pull off the motorway in to a MSA instead of coming off the motorway and driving in to the nearest town and looking for a shop and somewhere to park.
As with anything if the price is too high, people won’t buy it. If a truck stop tried charging £50 a night they would go out of business so it levels out at what people are prepared to pay.
I never use truck stops myself. I either stop in an industrial estate or off road lay by and stop at a MSA in the morning and have a 15 min break and use the free showers