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How builders plan to get round the Ulez charge

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

19 August 2023

9:00 AM

‘What a worry the Ulez must be for you both,’ said a friend with a nod to the pick-up truck parked outside our house.

It was kind of him to wonder. The builder boyfriend drives an old Mitsubishi L200 to work in London every day and like almost every other working man he cannot afford to buy a new vehicle that is Ulez compliant so you would presume he has to pay the charge.

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