Anti tamper
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THE GOVERNMENT could soon come under pressure to force anti-tampering devices to be fitted to lorries' fuel injection systems.
Labour MP Gareth Wardell (Gower) is gathering information as part of a campaign to get the Government to implement one of the recommendations of the Armitage Report.
Before Christmas, Transport Under Secretary Lynda Chalker told him that only Sweden required anti-tampering devices to be fitted as far as she knew. But the Automobile Association has told him that Switzerland and Czechoslovakia have the same legislation.
Now Mr Wardell is making enquiries about the effectiveness of the devices used and whether the law is observed.
He told CM that often fuel injection equipment was interfered with to increase the speed of lorries and that a side effect was to increase the amount of pollution put out by heavy lorries.
Armitage recommended that anti-tampering devices should be fitted to stop any rise in pollution levels.