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Hundreds of diesel engines • endangered by tainted fuel
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• by Miles Brignall Hundreds of hauliers who bought fuel at Lymm Services on the M6 could find that their vehicles engines have been damaged by paraffin and could be entitled to compensation.
Many who paid for full-price diesel in the second week of September will be unaware that diesel tanks on the busy bunkered fuel site were contaminated with paraffin, which is known to be bad for engines (see box).
At peak times 500 trucks an hour pass through the busy Lymm Truck Stop Services, whose bunkered fuel site was temporarily closed down by Customs and Excise on 14 September. It has since re-opened.
CM revealed last week that Customs officers took action after seizing a truck belonging to Manchesterbased hauller JST International. In the event, owner Shannon Tolley was able to produce receipts and tacho charts proving that all the fuel he had bought had been fully legal.
Customs officers then unearthed the problem at Lymm. They immediately removed 600,000 litres of fuel—the equivalent of 20 tanker loads. A Lymm spokesman distanced the site from ti stressing that it "merely acts in a t capacity" and has no influence on the of any fuel.
It has since emerged that the ini JST used a Securicor Fuelserve card, conjunction with Norther firm Morgan Fuel ServiceE According to Sec director Paul Holland, major fuel bunkering coml use the site and they all b from different sources.
"Clearly something ha very wrong here and we keen to find out as anyom it is," he says.
"We are working in co tion with the Customs 01 and will be carrying out co. investigation into what pened—lots of companie ply to the site, not just c behalf, but also for CH and UK Fuels. Once we receipt of all the facts, onl we will be able to look at like compensation."
A Customs spokesmai it has identified 30 corm that could have delivered I fin to the site and that evet of them "will be investigate