• Customs and Excise will be using trailers to carry
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equipment as part of its scheme to increase roadside testing of vehicles for illegal diesel.
Trailers—which carry all the testing equipment—are far cheaper to buy and run than vans, explains Customs's spokesman Mark Powell. "The vans are great, but they are inflexible and need a crew of three. The trailers are lightweight, can be towed by a car and are much cheaper to buy than a van."
Customs now has 50 trailers on the road which have released its vans to concentrate on large-scale commercial misuse such as filling stations selling illegal diesel, added Powell.
"We are testing many more vehicles and are putting much more effort into this."
• Customs has published a free 60-page booklet for companies operating in the motor industry. Bringing information together from many government departments and agencies, the booklet
looks at what measures businesses need to take to comply with the law, and how to get help and Information. Copies are available from DTI Publications.
• Contact: 0870150 2500.