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• A small haulage firm threatening court action over a debt owed by a bigger operator has spoken of its frustration at being met with a wall of silence when it attempted to claim the cash.
Oxfordshire-based Grove Freight Services (GFS), which runs four trucks, is owed £600 for two deliveries last summer for Fellows Gilbraith, an offshoot of Blackburn-based Gilbraith Transtore.
GFS owner Barry Smith had threatened county court action: he says repeated requests for information went unanswered until Commercial Motortook up the story and found that Fellows Gilbraith had ceased to trade. "I was beating my head against a wall," he adds.
Steve Gibson, north-west regional manager at Gilbraith Transtore, says Fellows Gilbraith did not make enough money. "But that's no excuse for not ringing back," he says. Group credit controller Andrew Wallis has promised to pay GFS within weeks, says Smith.