Truck Drivers Will Benefit From Safe Parking Spaces In The EU Now

In the EU, truck drivers have more places where they can park safely day and night without the risk of stealing their cargo.

Freight robberies, often committed by gangs, occur in 70% of cases on unsecured parking spaces. More and more, migrants are trying to get on trucks.

At a conference in Brussels, European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc will promise on Tuesday that more money will be available for secure parking spaces along highways. They must meet the same requirements everywhere, because truckers often do not know how secure parking is and what facilities are available. They should also be able to easily determine if there is enough room and what the cost is.

Bulc is convinced that drivers will use parking lots a lot more often if standards are the same everywhere. To do this, she puts a group of experts to work. It is also studying the shortage of safe parking spaces along the European motorway network.

"The current situation is no longer tenable"

MEP Peter van Dalen, co-organizer of the conference, welcomes the measures taken. According to politician ChristenUnie, the current situation is no longer tenable. He mentions incidents involving migrants, for example in Moerdijk and Hoek van Holland, but also in Belgium and France.

Van Dalen believes that once there are enough secure spaces, for example, fines should be imposed on drivers who still do so. do they refuse to use them?

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