Eagle freight faces court
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• A Scottish international freight forwarding firm with 20 county court judgements against it is to face legal action from a Bedford haulier for late payment of an invoice. Houghton Conquest-based operator MB Haulage is owed £1,609 for work it carried out in May for Lanarkshire forwarder Eagle Freight Management. MB says this is the second time it has had problems with Eagle Freight: in summer 1995 it had to wait five months to be paid £1,300 for work.
MB runs 10 vehicles on mainly international work. Managing director Malcolm Bottoms says that after the first time he swore never to work for Eagle Freight again, but when he was away on holiday a load was accidentally moved for them.
Eagle Freight has been operating for nine years but has amassed 20 county court judgements against it over the past four years for non-payment of work valued at around £23,500.
Eagle Freight says whenever possible it tries to pay invoices within 30 days but has itself suffered from cashflow problems brought on by late paying customers. Operations director Jim O'See says: "What we need is a European-wide law that makes people pay within a given time." He blames the delay in paying MB on an oversight in the company accounts department and promises to pay the invoice immediately.