Following its major expansion in March 2025, the Chippenham Pit Stop has become a standout name in British roadside infrastructure.
Backed by £13 million in National Highways investment, the site now boasts over 150 lorry spaces, modern driver facilities, clean showers, and extended food service. It’s being hailed as a blueprint for the future of HGV rest areas.
Until these standards are raised across the entire network, the UK’s truck-stop strategy remains dangerously patchy.
Across the rest of the UK, too many truck-stops still rely on outdated CCTV, patchy ANPR coverage, and frankly inadequate lighting or fencing.
Lorry drivers are being pushed into unsafe lay-bys and industrial estates. These are not just uncomfortable they’re dangerous. Freight theft, curtain-slashing, and fuel syphoning continue to rise where security is weakest and are some of the truck stops that are targeted any better?
While Chippenham leads with proactive real-time camera alerting, incident integration and detection-class AI, older sites struggle to even capture number plates, let alone trigger effective reporting or escalation.
If you’re in charge of fleet security, site planning, or service station upgrades, the warning is clear:
Don’t just copy Chippenham’s layout—copy its intelligence.
Real-time alerts, high-resolution CCTV, and linked reporting tools are no longer optional, they’re essential.
And basic ANPR systems aren’t enough—you need integrated solutions that actually support post-incident investigation.
We’re fortunate. All of our infrastructure, equipment, and access control systems are designed with security at their core. Our location helps, but that’s only part of the picture. We invest heavily in real security, not the tick-box kind, because we understand the real-world risks to both cargo and drivers. But more than that, we do it because our name stands for something.
We’re proud to be a truck stop operator that doesn’t cut corners for profit. Yes, plenty of people make serious money from truck parking, buying up land near a motorway and throwing down tarmac. That’s not us. We’ve deliberately chosen to make less profit so we can run a site that’s genuinely safe, clean, and respected by drivers and fleet managers alike.
Too many others treat HGV drivers as an afterthought. They charge full price for a space in the dark with no cameras, no fences, no decent food, and then wonder why crime happens and reputations get wrecked.
More truck stops need to realise: this is a service, not just a plot of land with a ticket machine.
Come on Britain, pull your socks up. Our drivers deserve better.
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