Hauliers 'slow to sack staff'
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• Many hauliers go out of business or are forced to slash rates because they are reluctant to make drivers redundant. So says Charles Garn of Machins Transport, Spalding, defending his decision to sack 20 drivers in April and end a lease on 14 trucks due to a downturn in business.
The-move has been attacked by the United Road'Iransport Union.
"If you're a switched on haulier, you have to cut back when there is a plunge, instead of cutting rates," says Gam, who openly admits he wants to be chairman of the Road Haulage Association. "If we all did that, maybe the industry would be in a better state."
He agrees it is difficult telling 20 drivers they no longer have jobs. "But I have 194 staff and they'd rather we did it that way rather than make 194 redundant," he says.