More help for safe truck parking in UK
Motorway Buddy, the app to assist road hauliers and drivers to accurately plan their overnight parking, has been enhanced with UK police-sourced theft and vehicle interference data to identify safer parking options.
The app has already been downloaded 130,000 times and used over three million times. Police theft and incident data is used by NaVCIS Freight to produce a "heat map" illustrating vulnerable parking locations that is overlaid onto Motorway Buddy's existing search engine for overnight parking.
In addition to crimes reported to the police, the app's new functionality also allows drivers to upload reports of suspicious incidents that do not necessarily warrant police action at the time; this information will be disseminated via subsequent updates. (ben)