In June, Castle Douglasbased Glover Transport had a vehicle impounded
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and was fined £22,000 when ii immigrants were found hiding in its trailer at Dover. Proprietor Malcolm Glover insisted the driver had
checked the vehicle moments before it went onto the ferry and found no-one inside.
In August last year a search was launched for a truck driver suspected of smuggling 117 Kosovar Albanians into
11 e UK and dumping them in remote lane in Kent. A Staffordshire haulier who ad four stowaways discovered in one of its
vehicles in May warned that international drivers are failing to take proper rest breaks because they are keeping a constant look-out for illegal immigrants.
IllpriA.n Irish haulier's artic was pounded in Dover on Good . Friday after six illegal
immigrants were found in its trailer. The driver had stopped overnight between Antwerp and Ghent, but his trailer was padlocked, sealed, and had its security rope in place. In the morning he climbed onto the roof to check for openings in the canvas top and checked the seal and the rope. Immigration officials found -,
ill the side of the curtainsider had been slit and resealed, and the security cord had been cut and rejoined.
Drivers on a Seafrance ferry from Calais to Dover recently refused to disembark until immigration and police officers had checked their trucks after a group of people were spotted on the car deck. Immigration and police officers were called to the scene and eight illegal
ma.. immigrants were detained.
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