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Licensing officials are braced for a huge ax of extra
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work as hauliers re-plate their ides to take advantage of new VED rates ling into force on 1 December.
Savings of well over 11,000 can be made by ply adding or subtracting the odd tonne ma vehicles existing weight limit.
A spokesman for the Driver and Vehicle 3nsing Agency in Swansea says dozens of ra workers have been drafted in to help deal h re-licensing applications.
The new rates were confirmed by medlar Gordon Brown in the last Budget as .t of a package to revive the fortunes of the ilage industry in the wake of last year's fuel 'tests.
Geoff Day, the Freight Transport iociation's manager of engineering policy, fs applications to re-plate vehicles will be ilt with from 19 November through to the Idle of February. "It is a very good example a government department approaching ide associations and working with them to ninate a potential problem."
He adds the hauliers who apply after 1 ;ember will still benefit from the same emit of savings as those who apply before.