Oil delivery racket
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TANKER DRIVERS have been accused of delivering short loadt to oil company customers and disposing of the rest of the loac elsewhere.
The accusation comes from Kent County Council chief trading standards officer Jack Stokoe, who told CM this week that one driver had been found with 550 gallons (2,500 litres) in a tanker after he had finished deliveries.
The fuel is going to filling stations favoured by the tanker drivers – or to a driver's own home if it is heating oil.
And the fuel shortages have made the racket even more attractive to "bent" drivers says Mr Stokoe.
KCC has been on the tracl of the fuel fiddlers for at leas five years, Mr Stokoe says tha petrol, diesel, heating oil an other products delivered 13: tanker are involved in th, racket.
Drivers that the departmen finds taking fuel in this man ner are prosecuted, "and w■ are continuing to do our job,' says Mr Stokoe.