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Dutch 'pick on flag-out Brits

19th August 1999
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• The Dutch police are targeting UK hauliers which have flagged out, according to international operator Mike Beer who believes their actions are getting dangerously close to harassment.

Dover-based Mike Beer Transport has flagged out 19 of its vehicles to the Netherlands. They are all on his UK 0-licence until he receives his Dutch equivalent. But Beer says vehicles are being stopped regularly. Last week police checked six trucks to make sure tachograph and nights-out rules were being complied with.

Beer is convinced the Dutch are trying to build up a case against UK hauliers who have flagged out. A Dutch Department of Transport official is understood to have been involved in one of the police checks last week.

"The police say they have been told to stop anybody with a UK 0-licence," says Beer. "It's getting to be annoying, the trucks are stopped so often."

The UK Department of Transport admitted recently that operators might be on safer ground if they set up a permanent operating centre abroad rather than registering ownership of vehicles abroad and then placing them on their UK 0-licence, ( CM, 15-21 July).


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