Wednesday 10 November 2010

The truckers of the night world

I drove home from Leeds to Woking last night between 10.30pm and 2.30am. It's motorway for 204 of the 212 miles.

What a different motorway world it was. The world of the truck driver.

Morrison, Royal Mail, Eddie Stobart, UKMail, Logistics companies by the dozen. Large trucks outnumbering cars by probably something like 15 to one. Columns of them working their way north (and south) to destinations around Britain.

It's a world most of us don't see.

On the motorways during the day there are more cars than trucks, but at night there are almost as many trucks, but far fewer cars.

The trucks are moving to stock Britain's shelves - not just the obvious supermarkets, but stockists of any kind - car parts, stationery, fuel, electronics - everything. They keep Britain ticking over.

Keep on trucking, guys!

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