Chris Giles,
Financial TimesIt's pretty fresh this morning, Wayne Widdecombe calls out of the cab of his 40-tonne truck sitting in a frosty industrial estate on the outskirts of Bourg-en-Bresse, more than 400km south-east of Paris. He had parked nearby and slept on a mattress behind the driving seat on one of his regular three-day round trips between Folkestone, near the Channel tunnel entrance, and Turin in northern Italy.