Gardai are to pool resources with the Revenue Commissioners in a bid to tackle unlicensed haulage activity.

The enforcement agencies are teaming up track down those breaching standards, whilst attempting to maintain normality for bona fide hauliers.

A series of three-day operations will begin on July 15th, when multi-agency checkpoints will look for illegal transportation of waste and unlicensed haulage activities. This will be followed by five similar operations later this year.

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Eddie Rock, who is heading up the Gardai’s traffic branch, said that licensed hauliers were entitled to a level playing field and these mutli agency checks were being undertaken to clean up the sector.

Meanwhile, the Revenue Commissioners has warned rogue hauliers that it is stepping up its campaign to detect the illegal use of rebated diesel.

The Irish Road Haulage Association has welcomed the move, which its hopes with put rogue operators out of business.

The Revenue Commissioners has confirmed that marked mineral oil has been discovered in 471 trucks so far this year, and has warned the haulage industry that it is intensifying its campaign against rogue operators.

There have also been seizures of laundered fuel, green diesel and Northern Ireland kerosene totalling over 57,000 litres.

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(PR)