Sentence examples for queue of lorries from inspiring English sources

The queue of lorries waiting to enter Santos sometimes stretched to 40km.No part of that journey makes sense.

A strike by Chilean customs officials in 2013 caused a queue of lorries 20km (12 miles) long in Bolivia.

The queue of lorries from the Mato Grosso taking soy to the port of Santos stretched 15 miles.

On November 21st a mountainous stretch of the highway to Buenaventura, the country's busiest port, collapsed at Alto de La Línea, causing a massive queue of lorries.

That rumour turned about to be false, so hundreds just sat down on the tarmac and blocked a queue of lorries.

Each time a queue of lorries formed, the migrants – many of whom have fled war and persecution in the Middle East and east Africa – abandoned what they were doing and ran up the bank to try and break into them.

Queues of lorries at the French port had led many migrants camped out in Calais to try to hide in the slow-moving vehicles.

Police and gendarmerie closed off a large section of the motorway leading to the port, causing long queues of lorries and cars stretching for miles around the area.

Also, despite the long queues of lorries in Operation Stack and the disruption around the tunnel, Eurotunnel's Shuttle services have continued to run, albeit with some delays.

Vital transport arteries are clogged: to take just three examples, the road inland from Salvador in Brazil, Peru's central highway from Lima to the Andes and the route from Bogotá to the lowland town of Villavicencio in Colombia are queues of lorries and buses.

They came first because of the industrial action by the Calais port workers meant there was a new opportunity to try to get into the backs of the long queues of lorries stretching down the approach roads to the ferries beyond the normal security fences.