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Blacklist leads to threats
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• Owner-drivers trade association the Transport Users Group has received a flood of threatening phone calls since it set up a blacklist of companies which fail to pay hauliers (CM 14-20 Nov 1991).
Its director, Robert Sutton, has also received late-night calls at his home: one caller threatened to come round and beat him up; another warned Sutton to be careful "whose toes you are treading on".
But Sutton says the anonymous calls will not affect TUG's campaign against unscrupulous freight forwarders.
The calls began in late November, soon after TUG announced its blacklist. A couple of the callers had Liverpool accents and one was a Londoner. British Telecom has advised Sutton to contact the police.
TUG advises its members to accept work only from firms registered with the British International Freight Association. It is calling for a bonded scheme to be set up, with money collected by BIFA paid out to hauliers affected by the liquidation of any BIFA members.
BIFA has promised to crack down on any of its freight forwarder members which fail to pay hauliers, It is calling on hauliers to report any case of nonpayment so it can reprimand and maybe "kick out" offenders from its 860-strong membership.