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With restaurants and autoroute service stations closed, lorry drivers who keep vital deliveries going have nowhere to get a meal while they are on the road. So an entire village has stepped up to make sure that they have something to eat.

A rest area on the RN88 near Rodez, in the Aveyron, has been transformed into a free drive-through picnic area by the inhabitants of Canabols, who hand out about 100 meals a day to lorry drivers and any passing essential workers who are going hungry.

The pitstop was the brainchild of village resident Marc Loubière, a truck driver currently on furlough. "I think it's immoral to leave people driving on the road every day without eating. It's not normal," he told .

"Some people cry as soon as they see us. The whole village is doing it."

Food for the truckers is donated by local businesses and handed out between 11:00 to 14:00 and from 19:00 to 20:30 daily.

"Some drivers have planned meals in their cabins for the whole week. Others haven't. So they have to go to a supermarket, run their errands like everybody else. But their break time is counted... so it's complicated," explains the trucker.