Rugby Truckstop
CV23 0AE
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Single site located at the side of the road.
The truckstop at Rugby is back to allowing overnight parking. Along with its large car park, it continues to act as a service area for the A5.
Facilities
Catering: Restaurant, Bar Amenities: Games Arcade, Launderette, Showers Outdoor Space: Small grass area next to car park Forecourt: Fuel, LPG Culina Vehicles only
Parking Prices
Parking can be paid by card, SNAP and TRAVIS.
This information is provided to us by third parties. You should always check with staff on site.
Contact Details
🏢 Address:
Stobart Truck Stops Ltd
Watling Street
Clifton upon Dunsmore
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV23 0AE
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Trivia and History
The site started out life as a transport café which dates back to at least the 1970s. Back then, the site was home to the Rendezvous Café, better known as 'Tubby's', which provided overnight parking for truck drivers. Throughout the 1980s, the owners of the café intended to add a hotel and fuelling facilities to the site to increase their custom however by the mid-1980s the café had closed.
Lakeland Investments sold the truckstop to BP in January 1988, along with a sister site at Penrith. BP developed both sites to create 'BP Truckstops' in 1989. The site includes an amenity building in the centre of the site, with HGV parking to the north and fuelling facilities to the south.
BP later sold the site to Nightowl in 2001, who were later acquired themselves by the Stobart Group in 2013. Stobart have since built a new transport depot on previously unused land to the south of the truckstop, with access to the depot provided through the truckstop.
The HGV parking area reopened to SNAP customers and Truckstop account customers on 1 February 2025. It began accepting cards again in September 2025.
Official Status
When the truckstop was built, there was no official status for truckstops, so it was decided to place "Services" signs on its approaches from the A5. Additional signs were placed on the M1 J18 slip roads.
This policy remained even when some of those signs were replaced in around 2007, even though signing for "truckstops" is now allowed. New roundabouts have been placed on the A5 which means the continuity signage is now missing from places along the route.
Alternatives
| Previous: | Next: | |
| Hinckley (14 miles) Rothwell (A14, 25 miles) | Services on the A5 | Watford Gap (M1 south, 6 miles) Leicester Forest East (M1 north, 22 miles) Rugby (M6, 10 miles) |
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