‘It is soul-destroying’: lorry drivers face hours stuck in queues at Dover

Emergency traffic controls triggered 20 times this year as extra Brexit controls and freight volumes cause logjams

His lorry loaded with British Airways aircraft parts, Ivo Hradilik was expecting to drive onto a ferry headed to Calais, before delivering his cargo to the outskirts of Paris.

But there's a problem with the customs paperwork, and the 26-year-old HGV driver from the Czech Republic will have to park up near the Port of Dover while the haulage company sorts everything out.