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DEATH TRUCKS - UK - Scandal of foreign lorry drivers'
SUNDAY Mirror Investigates: Overloaded, over-tired and over here.. unroadworthy wagons
UK -The Sunday Mirror, by Stephen Hayward-15 Oct 2006: -- The full deadly menace of foreign truckers on British roads can be revealed today... Almost half of overseas drivers stopped in roadside checks over the last month were found to be breaking the law... Many had failed to take adequate rest breaks and were driving dangerously overloaded vehicles with clocked mileages and forged paperwork... And more than a third of the lorries had potentially fatal defects ranging from faulty brakes to bald tyres and missing wheel nuts... However, prosecuting foreign drivers is largely a waste of time, with police powerless to act over unpaid fines... The scale of the problem was exposed when the Sunday Mirror spent a night with government vehicle inspectors last week... Out of 45 foreign-registered HGVs stopped, 27 were breaking the law...
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