Thousands of truck drivers remain stranded in southern England, giving up hope of making it home in time for the holidays.

France closed its borders to Britain for 48 hours, stranding furious European truckers after a new, highly infectious strain of the coronavirus spooked Briton's continental neighbors.

Carlos is from Spain.

What is the condition?

The conditions are chaotic at the moment.

We had hoped to return to be with our families.

But as you can see, they've thrown us here with nobody doing anything for us.

So it looks as if we're going to spend it here on this motorway with our colleagues in a startup ista we'll see.

With little food and no access to toilets, tensions have boiled over.

Paris and London agreed late on Tuesday that drivers carrying a negative Co vid 19 test result could board ferries for Calais on while the military have started testing drivers.