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I have to spend several breaks per week in service areas & I find it interesting to sit & watch what goes on. Sometimes caravanners even speak, which is nice as I'm one too & I enjoy yakking to them about my favourite hobby. Over a period of time I've noticed a growing number of people ignoring the Long vehicle bay signs. In Michaelwood northbound recently the Long Load by was full of Lorries, Caravan outfits & a Motorhome. I counted over twenty available bays in the main lorry park but when two large low loaders pulled in, they had no where to park & had to sit on the through route.

Several weeks ago I was in Leigh Delamere services eastbound on the M4, Again the long load bay was full of normal sized vehicles, this time all lorries. A huge crane & its support artics pulled in, the artics parked in general lorry park bays but the crane had no choice but to park beside the vehicles sitting in the long load bay.

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I actually drive one of those large low loaders every day and it makes my blood boil to see this,i will ask people to move so i can park up for a break but have got abuse of other so called professional drivers and caravaners(even when i tell them i have one) we now just call the police and they move people on.The problem accures when people either cant or am to idle to reverse into a space.

We stopped at Leigh Delamere in June and couldn't even find the caravan car park - no signs to be seen. We ended up at the back of the normal car park with numerous other caravans, luckily we weren't causing an obstruction.

We have just come back from Norfolk and stopped at the services at the top of the A1M at Peterborough on both journeys. The caravan parking is a nightmare. You have to go into the car park to get to the caravan bays and most of them were filled with vans and cars. Today we rebelled and parked in the (almost empty) coach park.