Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context British English) A roadside eating establishment used especially by lorry-drivers; a truck stop
Usage examples of "transport cafe".
The tanker turned up every time abandoned in Scotland in transport cafe carparks, but always with so many extra miles on the clock that it could have been driven as far as London or Cardiff and back.
The Transport Cafe, where the Indian tea was black and strong and the lorry drivers brought in a smell of sweat and petrol and the great world (Bond found that all his senses, particularly his palate and nose, had miraculously become sharpened), and a dozen other cottagey, raftery nooks where elderly couples with Ford Populars and Morris Minors talked in muted tones about children called Len and Ron and Pearl and Ethel, and ate in small mouthfuls with the points of their teeth and made not a sound with the tea things.
The rain clouds themselves had now moved on and were currently concentrating their attention on a small transport cafe just outside Bournemouth, but the sky through which they had passed had been disturbed by them and now wore a damply ruffled air, as if it didn't know what else it might not do it further provoked.
He hesitated beside the truck, then followed his original intention and went out of the yard across the road to the transport cafe.
I must have missed the turning back on to the Berlin road, for it was almost midnight when I finally found it again and I saw no transport cafe - only dark woods and the illimitable miles of white agricultural land, flat and windswept.
A thin tendril of smoke rose from the chimney of the all night transport cafe which stood there and as I slowed down to take the corner a faint but piercing smell of cooking found its way into the car.
The Canton sounded like another old ladies' tea-room, but in fact was a transport cafe with famed large helpings.
Richard still went out every night, and Coyle was aware that his son had been involved in that massive and brutal brawl at the lorry-park of the transport cafe by the motorway.