'Middlemen' worry RHA
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)ME transport consultants are worrying the Road Haulage Assoation's express carriers functional group to the extent that a meetg between the group and certain consultants is planned tentarely for May or June.
DRTY-TWO Liverpool area 3ulage contractors have now gned agreements with the .ansport and General Workers nion for £83 for a basic 40-hour eek.
Union organiser Bob Thinson told CMthat the deals, hich include a 55-hour plain tie guaranteed week, have ?en coming in "daily", and he lded that no company has yet fused to meet the Union's aim. They allege that some consultants are acting as "middlemen" by getting hauliers to tender for contracts without naming their clients. The clients can then compare rates and information supplied by operators.
But the most damaging aspect for hauliers is the claim that consultants then accept the lowest tenders on behalf of their clients, regardless of the service offered by often disreputable operators.