News / As Dover breathes, truck traffic rises and falls – but don't go on Tuesday

The Dover TAP on the A20 in operation today with truckers queueing to board ferries. Credit Nick Savvides.

Truck queues at the UK’s major ro-ro port in Dover diminished today, from 282 lorries waiting on the A20 dual-carriageway yesterday to 189 at around 11am.

The Loadstar’s fact-finding mission to Dover has shone a light on the local traffic management system, Dover Traffic Access Protocol, known locally as the Dover TAP, which comes into use periodically.

Although much has been made in the media about the Dover Tap and the queues of traffic, on average, the town handles some 8,000 lorries ...