The Trucker’s Rest is a family-run, real ‘old school’, or ‘proper’, transport café. It’s on the busy A5 trunk road in Cannock, Staffordshire, just a short distance from junctions 11 and 12 of the M6. Sure it’s not going to…
The Whitwood Café in Castleford, West Yorkshire, is part of the Exelby Truckstop chain and is a big facility geared up well to cater for truck drivers, offering good facilities and fuel services. Breakfast The breakfast range starts with the…
The Red Lion truckstop at Northampton was established over 30 years and is just 200 yards from junction 16 of the M1 making it very convenient place for truckers to park to get a meal. It’s a big establishment that…
The Redbeck Motel is on the Doncaster Road, in Crofton in the south part of Wakefield in West Yorkshire. While first impressions might make you think it is an establishment geared up for families, the reality is it has a…
The Hillside Café is on the A36 in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, close to the A303 Salisbury to Exeter main road and close to several major towns – for example it’s eight miles from Warminster, nine miles from Longleat,…
The Albion Inn at Ashcott could be described as pub that has a big enough car park for 15 artics to stay the night rather than a bespoke truckstop! But, the reality is it’s a good place to stop if…
Skelmersdale in Lancashire is a midway point between Wigan and Merseyside and is a busy place for industry, so that means is also a busy place for road haulage; its vast industrial estates mean there’s plenty of trucks passing through,…
Motorway services are sometimes a necessary evil for many truck drivers, but isn’t it good when there’s a much better alternative about half a mile away from them? That’s the case at Junction 24 on the M5 where the Junction24…
The A9 from Perth to Inverness is a 100-plus busy old stretch of main trunk road and the gateway to the Highlands. Accordingly, it’s a popular route for trucks. About 20 miles north of Perth, and just five miles before…
The Heywood diner and truckstop is a little bit different to many other establishments featured in TSN of late in the fact it’s not really used by the general public. That is because its on the Heywood Distribution Park and…