Van drivers have to stop to eat, drink and freshen up. It’s important to have a break every two hours but MSA costs put people off stopping
The IAM is calling for a complete review of motorway prices, together with filling stations being forced to advertise their own and their competitors’ fuel prices, as is in France.
IAM chief executive Simon Best told Business Vans: “Motorway service areas are supposed to be for drivers to eat, drink and freshen up. It’s very important to have a break every two hours and these costs will put people off stopping. Tired drivers pose a danger to themselves and other road users.”
welcome to rip-off Britain. It happens everywhere !!!!
Hi Colin
Good to see this getting some press. I got so annoyed with these prices, that I developed an app that lists all the supermarkets next to motorway junctions and put them in an Android and iphone app called ServiceSaver. I reckon each time you use it to fill up and grab some lunch it saves somewhere between £7 and a tenner.
Bob
This survey has to be the biggest waste of time. Surely regular drivers realise the costs, it’s a convenience thing hence the prices my concern is though, surely the IAM should be spending charitable trust money on road safety initiatives rather than surveys about being ripped off, or are they a consumer charity now? Think this confirms they have lost their direction and focus?