Think like a trucker: 15 ways to survive Britain’s summer of holiday queues and delays

Get your car air-con serviced, have a game of road-trip bingo and play tricks on fellow queuers to keep the family happy, say professionals

For British travellers, the summer of 2022 seems destined to be remembered as the season of waiting: queueing for passport control, parking on motorways, sleeping in airports or staring down tracks in fond hope of spotting a non-cancelled train. Getting there and back used to be the most tedious part of the holiday. Increasingly, it is the holiday.

How can you keep yourself and your loved ones occupied and amused during the Great Standstill? Here are 15 tips from the professionals: