Proposals on how to ease the pain of Operation Stack though music and dance have been aired at the first meeting of two new action groups.

Following last month's Stack marathon caused by industrial action on SeaFrance ferries, concerned members of the public have joined forces to brainstorm ideas on how to make the chaotic traffic measure better for all until permanent solutions are approved.

The Alliance of Pro-active Rallying for Industrial Lorries was formed off the back of a Facebook chat group last week, and already has 1,408 members.

This morning, the group wrote to KCC with a list of proposals.

Spokesman Alexi Harpor said: "While we are waiting for the new lorry parks to be built, we have had some great feedback about ways of making Stack easier in the short term.

"One idea that we are hoping the big firms will roll out in the next couple of weeks is concentrated freight – instead of taking one big lorry to and from the UK, they take ten small vans and split their cargo across each of them.

"This way, the fleet smaller vehicles can use all those shortcuts through Kent’s rural villages and country lanes and stop clogging up the motorway."

He added: "Several of the French freight firms have also gotten in touch to tell us about the terrible boredom Stack inevitably brings, and we are hopeful that we can get some speakers installed between junctions 8 and 12 of the M20 to play some of their favourite music during the night.

"It’ll be mostly Johnny Halliday and The Spice Girls, but we’d be delighted to here from anyone with DJ experience who can help us out in this area."

Another group, Spiritual Learning for Overly Oppressed Freight, has also expressed concern about the lorry drivers’ wellbeing.

Leader Flora Pilo said: "The most important thing surely for everyone is make sure that if Operation Stack is enforced, it can be turned into a positive, life-affirming event for both the truckers trapped in their cabs to the policemen patrolling the closed carriageways."

One way in which SLOOF aims to make a difference is by staging three or four-man interpretive dance performances on the flyovers along the M20.

Miss Pilo explained: "Ideally, we’d like to see the truckers and officers inspired by our dances, and perhaps join in on the closed carriageways below.

"But as long as we free the minds of just a few of the brave drivers trapped in their cab cages, then we will have accomplished a great deal."