Operation Stack- part 1

Operation Stack- part 1

Operation Stack- part 1

For those of you who live in Kent, you will have noticed that there is a little bit of snow. Now when I say a little I mean up to the wellies, over a foot of snow. Roads, houses, and pathways are covered. The M25 is so slippery that lorries and even smaller Ford transit vans slide backwards down the hills, and cars veer across the lanes without notice because of the slippery surfaces and mounting slush on the ground. Busy streets are generally littered with closed shops and the few brave enough to don their winter warmers, head out with their sledges.

While we are worrying about getting to work or getting home from work, most of us are unaware of the import implications on our economy due to the severity of the weather. With commercial aeroplanes grounded due to the closure of runways, new ford cars and transporter lorries generally stuck on motorways for hours and train lines come to halt, we don't stop and think about the lorry loads of goods, supplies and imports we rely on daily that come through our ports, and in particular through our only link to Europe- the Port of Dover and Folkestone.

Kent Police and the Port of Dover use the term Operation Stack' when weather is so severe that the lorries cannot proceed through the towns on this side, once they have crossed the borders. Generally this entails stacking' the lorries side by side on the motorways in surrounding areas because they simply cannot go any further, or the roads are just too dangerous for them to continue.

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