• After reading P Clark's sycophantic letter of support for
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the John Dee Group I find it hard to believe that anyone can absolve from blame a chairman who oversaw the collapse of a business owing millions of pounds to hauliers throughout the UK.
I sub-contracted to John Dee Yorkshire for 16 months and news of the group's collapse reached me during the Christmas holiday 1990.
I was owed E.14,132 and consequently my business collapsed.
As a sole trader I have had to honour my debts as I have not got the protection of a limited liability umbrella.
Mr Clark, whose relationship with the John Dee Group is not made clear in the letter to Commercial Motor, sums up his letter by apportioning the blame for the collapse on us, the sub-contractors and suppliers, but up until the Christmas holiday of 1990 senior representatives of John Dee were assuring me that there was no crisis and that "my cheque was in the post".
I attended the creditor's meeting in Leeds earlier this year and we were told that after preferential creditors, such as John Dee employees, had made their claim the rest of us were entitled to zero pence in the pound.
So my mistake Mr Clark was not for continuing to work for the John Dee Group, but for working for them in the first place. P Ward Former owner of Blue Line Transport, Barnsley, South Yorks.