transport cafe


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transport café

n
Brit an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
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transport cafe

truck stop
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Translations

transport café

n (Brit) → Fernfahrerlokal nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

transport café

n (Brit) → trattoria per camionisti
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"Dorothy referred to a transport cafe where she was told 'This is a cafe for lorry drivers'.
It was initially opened as a transport cafe nearly 35 years ago and has been going ever since.
It was initially opened as a transport cafe nearly 35 years ago and, despite its trials and tribulations, has been going ever since.
A woman who matched her description had been seen in the Poplar Transport Cafe, in High Legh, near Knutsford, on the same evening.
Recalling a visit to a transport cafe, he said: "Everyone absolutely loved her.
It started when I was a child and my father returned from WW2, he was in the Army Catering Corps, and opened up his own transport cafe. I used to go along with him to the cafe on weekends and during school holidays and help out.
Later he bought a small transport cafe in Leamington where he served bacon and eggs to lorry drivers.
With our total bill coming to PS23.94 for a quick lunch in what is effectively an in-andout transport cafe, the PS3.99 VAT element made it feel like we'd been overcharged for what we'd had despite the quality of food.
Some of the drivers even remembered the days when they were stuck in the snow at the transport cafe, which is now the Carriage House at Marsden, waiting for the roads to be cleared along with the fact many wagons did not have heaters.
Well done to Jean Webber and her son Mark, who have won awards for their menus at a transport cafe in West Sussex.
The casual - already banned from every ground in England before Sunday's match - was photographed under a banner dedicated to manchester Loyal Glasgow at a motorway transport cafe.
The landmark roadside transport cafe known as 'Bob's caf', out on the A45 at Stretton-on-Dunsmore, was a particular favourite with the bikers.

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