charlotte chelsea hill is standing by in charlotte what's the situation there. terry lorry drivers here stuck on the mesa way approaching the pool of dave waking up now author another night stranded now you might be able to see just behind me that there are long queues going up into the poor that the government said yesterday that they were around 170 lorries stranded here seems more like they there are up to a 1000 not certainly what 4 to authorities 1 are reporting here at the moment many of them on able to get hot meals their own toilet facilities of course on the motorway so many of the in the european drivers and european mainland who just want to go home for christmas we've spoken to several of them who is saying that they can send again they're going to be here for days now what you're seeing just behind me is that some of the lorries are starting to move to us because the government has said that as part of its preparations for a no deal it's fully anticipated scenarios like this and has plans in place not what's happening now some of these lorries are b

and let's across straight over to our correspondent to charlotte to chelsea hill who is on a highway in near dover charlie good to see you what's the situation like where you are now. i'm sure you can see behind me there 6 are still hundreds of lorries here backed up across the motorway back to back drivers here waiting to find out exactly what will happen next there is the face of a very frustrating wait many of them here for the 3rd night it's a night potentially as they wait to find out what resolution will be come up with to get them across the border into france now one suggestion that has been proposed is the drive is issued people tested the current virus before they are allowed to cross into front said dr atomic is that something that they would be more than willing to do if it meant that they could and could leave but the question really is one of logistics is that possible to set up a mass testing site for the hundreds and hundreds of drivers here and if it is possible in what timeframe so many drivers tell me that they are simply very concerned about getting back for chris