Getty Lorry drivers are unhappy that they are punished when they are doing what they can to stop migrants

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Truckers are sick of being penalised with the £2,000 fines for stowaways which come on top of the cost of fixing their vehicles which have been trashed by migrants making their bids for Britain. Despite ensuring their lorries are secure, migrants are still managing to evade truck drivers with increasingly inventive and desperate measures. A Romanian company is taking a case to the Court of Appeal, after already paying £3,000 since the Home Office penalisation scheme began.

Getty Fines issued to hauliers has tripled in the last three years

The manager, Marius Cuzmin, said: "We are doing all we can, we're following all the guidelines ... we cannot do anything more than we are doing right now.” The firm are angry as the driver claims he checked the lorry three times before arriving in Calais and did not even stop close to the port, where many of the migrants gather. In 2013, three migrants jumped on to the roof of one of its trucks from a motorway bridge, cut through the tarpaulin cover.

getty Companies are starting to appeal against the hefty fines

getty Migrants have made thousands of attempts to cross to Britain from Calais