overnighting at a motorway services

Post by **A KIRK** » 13 Mar 2009, 12:04

You have o watch some of the motorway services, as a lot of them have started to use anpr cameras to clock you on arrival and exiting, and if you leave out sdie fo the free stay period, you get home to find a nice ticket.

I know Lymm truck stop have started this and a few others on the M6. I had a driver ticketed for overstaying by 30 minutes at Lymm truck stop, he over ran because he was to tired to drive, so instead of driving , he grabbed a couple of hours kip so he could finish the journey.

Post by **Mocki** » 13 Mar 2009, 16:29

thats why the rear numberplate is on a fold down flap isnt it?
ooops was checking the oil and forgot..........

Post by **ginge** » 13 Mar 2009, 16:37

Ian Hulley wrote:Just don't pull in too close behind a lorry, otherwise you may not get a very nice awakening Don't laugh, it can and has happened.

Ian.

i done that in austria was in the truck ohhps dented car

Post by **dink** » 13 Mar 2009, 19:59

if anyone around birmingham reditch area needs a spot, I found this place last time out, £8 a night in a truckstop is too much for me
on google earth, 52°19'01.27"n x 1°56'28.90"w

no good if you have a problem with sleeping near cemetary's
It doesn't bother me any, we had a good nights kip there

Post by **tezza** » 13 Mar 2009, 20:23

anyone driving up to Scotland, dive off onto the old A6,plenty of nice quiet laybys and cumbrian folks are nice people or the old A74 further up,:D

Post by **dink** » 13 Mar 2009, 21:03

another spot I found on the A12
we used to go and stay on the beach at aldeburgh, since they knocked that one on the head, to go into the area there doesn't seem many places to overnight
we've overnighted there a couple of times, and have not yet been moved on

52°24'49.27"N x 1°41'14.97"E

Post by **Mocki** » 14 Mar 2009, 10:24

someone should make a web site of all these sleepyspots...........

Post by **andisnewsyncro** » 14 Mar 2009, 11:32

Mocki wrote:someone should make a web site of all these sleepyspots...........

Perhaps along these lines....
http://www.wildcamping.co.uk/forums/ind ... 5e5308a1aa

Not checked it out for a while but had it bookmarked for years !!

Andi

Post by **weldore** » 14 Mar 2009, 17:10

i downloaded the sleepy spots poi's but there arnt many on there,unless i didnt get the right file.would be great if there was a poi with all the secret ones for select members

Post by **dink** » 15 Mar 2009, 01:59

Mocki wrote:someone should make a web site of all these sleepyspots...........

It would be very handy, I'm sure there are many decent places to stop over
that most never get to know about

Post by **Mocki** » 15 Mar 2009, 09:06

ok, ok i was taking the pi$$......
for years and years i ran a web site called sleepingspots.co.uk.
Last year i took it down due to lack of input and the ones i had used, tested and found many of them were out of date, no useable or broken.
I still own the domain, i still have the webspace, should i rebuild it?
would i get enough input , with the detail like those listed on this thread above?
i took it down partly because all the good ones i used were being abused by people who had no respect for what they were doing,partly becuse the input from others was patchy and not accurate and i decided that unpublicised was better.....

The poi on here is small, mostly because sleepyspots dont have postcodes and i found and logged most of them before the days of gps, and the only accurate way of getting a poi for each spot was to go there, which i could do for many of them at the time......

maybe a section on this website would be better than a seperate website?

Post by **Nicola&Tony** » 15 Mar 2009, 09:24

Mocki wrote: maybe a section on this website would be better than a seperate website?

Agreed. I used to use the wildcamping forum but am wary about doing so now. Makes it too easy for numpties who have no respect for people and places, to find and abuse these locations, or for the authorities to block-off some beautiful spots, as happened to one place in the Cairngorms that we used to enjoy.

Tony

Post by **Mocki** » 15 Mar 2009, 09:27

yeah, and what really made me take the website down was my fav spot in the world to wake up was "broken" and i cant sleep there anymore......... bliddy T'Onion broke it i recon.!!!

Post by **Nicola&Tony** » 15 Mar 2009, 09:33

Mocki wrote: . . . my fav spot in the world to wake up was "broken" and i cant sleep there anymore.......

Gutted for ya! It's a subject which makes my blood boil, tbh.

Tony

Post by **T'Onion** » 15 Mar 2009, 09:51

yup I broke the sandend one , But the fisherman still bloody use it all night

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