News / Relief charity will provide food and water to UK hauliers caught in congestion

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Drivers have welcomed a UK government scheme offering humanitarian relief to hauliers stuck on congested roads to Dover.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has brought in war-zone relief organisation RE:ACT in a £200,000-a-year deal to supply food and water to truckers stuck in queues on approach roads to Dover and the Channel Tunnel.

The move follows rising concerns over driver welfare, and one haulier told The Loadstar: “At last, they have finally realised there needs to be a contingency.

“The manner it has ...