Charter blockade threat
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• An owner-driver who is campaigning for hauliers' rights is threatening to lead a blockade if support for his campaign is ignored.
Glenn Johnson aims to collect 250,000 signatures for a petition to parliament in support of his "charter for transport".
If MPs do not take him seriously he warns that a blockade could be the only way for Britain's hauliers to express their plight. "Strikes are not very effective; they only put one driver against another,' he says.
A blockade need not be targeted at a specific site, Johnson explains. It could be a case of truck drivers pulling over wherever they happen to be at a certain time.
The charter calls for an upper and lower limit for rates; obligatory demurrage payments; clearing houses to hold CPCs; return loads to be treated as loads at the going rate and not subjected to multiple sub-contracting; and drivers' wages to be unconnected to vehicle earnings.
For more details send an SAE to 63 Besthorpe Road, Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 2NQ.