Hauliers welcome permit clampdown
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I FIE ROAD Haulage Association has welcomed the announcement of a Customs and Excise experiment clamp down on foreign vehicles entering Dover without per
The RI-IA has been pressing for this move for over a year as it believes that foreign vehicles arc entering Britain without valid permits and are 'gaining an ordliir share of the traffic between Britain ,ind mainland Europe.
Until now. the Customs officers have been 11.113bie to
stop the vehicles and could only pass on particulars to Department of Transport examiners.
But for an experimental period starting next month. Customs officers on all shifts at Dover's Eastern Docks will be authorised as traffic. examiners under the 1072 Road I raffle Act and will be able to stop offenders.
A spokesman said this week: "If the experiment succeeds, the RUA will expect the scheme to he extended permanently to all UK ports.