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2.20 Washing your vehicle

It is important that you keep your allocated vehicle clean. You have a legal responsibility to
ensure that the windscreen, windows, mirrors, number plates and light lenses are all clean and
in good working order.

The customer also expects to see a clean vehicle in good condition.

2.21 Pollution from washing your vehicle

Vehicle washing may cause dirt, brake dust, traffic film residue and oil to be washed off. The
cleaning agents you use (including those labelled biodegradable or traffic film removers) are
poisonous to river life and therefore pollutants. Causing or allowing pollution is a criminal
offence. Uncontrolled vehicle washing will lead to pollutants draining to ground, surface water
drains or to foul water drains.

Commercial vehicles should be cleaned in a reputable commercial cleaning facility in order to
be confident that the activity will not lead to any pollution. Company vans should not be washed
on your own driveway or the roadside.

2.22 Engine idle

In order to minimise vehicle emissions that negatively impact the environment and public health,
Glen Dimplex is committed to reducing engine idle. You must not idle the engine more than is
necessary to safely and correctly operate the vehicle. This applies at home, in stationary traffic
queues or when parked at the roadside.

The Highway Code states that ‘you must not leave a parked vehicle unattended with the engine
running or leave a vehicle engine running unnecessarily while the vehicle is stationary on a
public road’.

You are therefore responsible for ensuring your vehicle does not idle unnecessarily. Engine idle
is not only bad for the environment, air quality and public health but it also wastes fuel and
money.

Commercial Drive4Life Handbook – January 2022 (Glen Dimplex Fleet Assistance – 01604 747269) Page 22 of 37