A new blow to Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion has come from drivers of Dutch lorry companies claiming £6.5 million in fines were imposed illegally.

In the first case of its kind concerning fines to foreign drivers, the truck companies have filed a judicial review against Transport for London in the High Court. If this case is successful, it might pave the way for others of a similar nature.

The Ulez zone, which was expanded in August to include all of London’s boroughs, imposes a daily £12.50 fee on drivers of cars that do not meet certain emissions requirements. The motorists face a £180 charge if they fail to pay. However, the fine for large goods vehicles that produce a lot of pollution—such as lorries—not paying within low emission zones can reach £3000. 

However, the Dutch business has requested authorization to begin a judicial review against TfL, alleging that the latter has been fining Dutch businesses illegally.

Transport in Nood BV asserted that Dutch companies whose cars were detected in charging zones were incorrectly imposed fines of £6,500 in Ulez and Lez.

According to a newspaper outlet, owner Antonio Oliveira stated that the company was taking legal action against unfair fines that caused some businesses to file for bankruptcy.

‘People have been really impacted,’ he told the outlet. Some have had to sell their trucks, and I have witnessed individuals in tears over this. It is utterly unfair, and we must receive a response from an English court to confirm whether this is true.

‘We are launching this claim to get the fines that have already been paid to be repaid and the court costs. We are talking millions of pounds. We are only talking about Holland; it must be even greater across Europe. We are not the only country, of course.’

Following the receipt by its clients of over 10,000 fine notifications from TfL via Euro Parking Collection (EPC) in November of last year, the firm decided to file the lawsuit. 

The company claims that a large number of these fines arrived simultaneously, costing some businesses tens of thousands of euros in a single day.

The legal action stems from the assertion that the fines were improperly expressed in euros.

This is against UK law, which mandates that all fines be paid in pounds.

The businesses’ solicitors argue that because the EPC applied a high exchange rate, Dutch drivers’ fines are £200 greater than theirs.

I’ve never encountered somebody like Sadiq Khan; he seems to be out there on his own, and they seem to have a strong case. For the UK, any bad news regarding Sadiq Khan is good news.

If all wagons and horses stopped entering the Ulez zone, I wonder how long it would be before London would run out of fuel, food and other essential deliveries?

The sooner this clown is gone the better for Londoners.

Sadly, Sadiq Khan will stay where he is as long as people keep voting for him, only this time they’ll know what to expect.

With his despised Ulez policy, Sadiq Khan has made London an extremely dangerous place to live and a nightmare for cars.

This is ridiculous because everything that this man is meant to be overseeing is being meticulously destroyed, and it appears that people are unaware that Ulez is nothing more than a money-making scam.

This is possibly the most pathetic, poorly thought-out scheme to defraud the public of their hard-earned money under the pretence of falsehood, and the government should address the perception that the mayor seems to hold greater authority than the Prime Minister.