Creditors unhappy with the sale of RMS vehicles
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION • by Charles Young Creditors of disgraced haulier Road Movement Services (RMS), which is in the process of liquidating, are unhappy that its assets are being sold to a company owned by a former RMS director which does not have an Operator's Licence.
A document seen by Commercial Motor states that the provisional liquidator of Kinross-based RMS sold four vehicles to its director, Andrew Morren. Morren asked for the invoice to be sent to his own firm, Saltire Logistics, which he had set up just before RMS's liquidation started.
Morren confirms that he bought one vehicle but denies buying the other three. The Scottish Traffic Area Office says that Saltire Logistics has never applied for an 0-licence.
The creditors also believe that Robert Morton, father of the other RMS director, Allan Morton, is behind another new haulage firm which started up just after RMS's 0-licence was revoked in April last year. At that time Allan Morton was disqualified from being a director of a haulage firm for five years.
This company called Fresh Service (Scotland), has the same phone number as RMS and also has no 0-licence. Its directors are listed as Catherine Morton, who is Alan Morton's mother, and Lynn Suttie who is, or used to be, his girlfriend and works in a hair salon in Milnathort. The company's registered office is at the same address as Allan Morton's home.
When CM spoke to Suttie she told us that she used to be a director of Fresh Service, but she declined to answer any questions about its 0-licence or whether it had any links with RMS.
Fresh Service itself denies it has anything to do with RMS but refuses to comment on its directors, its lack of an 0-licence, or who is running the company. Earlier this month creditors of RMS secured an interim interdict to stop RMS appointing a liquidator. Now one has been appointed. One creditor, Eurodrive Consultants, was previously awarded 254,000 in Edinburgh Sheriff court. Another, HSH Transport, says it is owed £16000.