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The UK Government Is Hiring Over 100 Lorries To Carry Out No Deal Brexit Traffic Tests Next Week

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The government is hiring up to 150 lorries to test how one of the country's busiest roads would cope with the disruption of the UK leaving the European Union without a deal. The Department for Transport will reportedly next week trial a plan known as "Operation Brock" in which lorries be driven from Manston Airport in Kent to the port of Dover on the southern coast of England. As part of the plan being drawn up in Westminster, the airfield will be used as a holding facility for Europe-bound trucks in order to prevent congestion on the road to Dover in the event of a no deal Brexit. The tests next week are designed to discover at what speed the lorries can reach Dover.

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