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TRAVEL: Don't forget #OperationBrock is starting this morning on the #M20 ahead of the #Brexit deadline #kmfmtravel buff.ly/2qIWPnn
TRAVEL: The #M20 is still closed coast bound due to overrunning roadworks ahead of #OperationBrock which is coming into force today #kmfmtravel
TRAVEL: These are the queues on the #M20 coast bound this morning as you approach J7 where the motorway is closed due to over running roadworks in preparation for #OperationBrock #kmfmtravel
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The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019 laid in draft before Parliament today legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/978… criminalising lorry drivers in Kent who leave the UK via a non-specified road or fail to produce papers showing origin+destination and what they are carrying
The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/9780… banning EU-bound lorries from local roads in Kent during restriction periods legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/9780… signed yesterday but subject to Parliamentary approval This Order supports Operation Brock by restricting access to the local road network. Specifically, heavy goods vehicles that are leaving the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel or the Port of Dover will not be permitted to use any road in Kent maintained by Highways England, Kent County Council or Medway Council other than:<br />
• motorways, save for parts of the M20 motorway (see paragraph 7.5 below);<br />
• the A2 and A20…
The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 3) Order 2019 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1210… signed yesterday and laid before Parliament today, to ban lorries from the M20 without documents and a permit during traffic restriction periods. #novel ANPR data made admissible in court 3.1. Articles 2 and 3 of this instrument rely upon the power in section 17 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to regulate the use of special roads/motorways. The use of this power is novel – it requires the drivers of certain vehicles to comply with checks of documents relating to the export of goods and to display a permit (demonstrating compliance with the traffic management scheme known as Operation Brock…
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