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Driver gassings questioned
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REPORTS BY DRIVERS that they have been gassed while sleeping in their cabs, allowing criminal gangs to steal their loads, have become more common in the past year, reveals TruckPol.
But the road freight crime unit says so little research has been done into the subject that it is unclear what gas is being used. One possibility is diethyl ether, the chemical used in products for the easier starting of cold diesel engines. However TruckPol's Detective Constable Andy Round says the dose would have to be exact — too little and it would not work, too much and it could kill.
°neat the difficultiesforthe police is in establishing whether a driver invents a gassing story to hide the fact they slept through a theft, decided not to confront the thieves, or were involved themselves,
Round says: "I'm not saying gassings never happen, but we haven't got any hard evidence,"