ALLEGATIONS of a setlof British Road SerVI4 general haulage operatic
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have been firmly denied by company this week. The charges were le4 at the company by UniI Road Transport Union geriE secretary Jackson Moore his union paper, Wheels.
He accused BRS of runs vehicles that should haveAi( replaced long ago becai money for new vehicles ;NI being channelled into Natft'o Carriers and the contrac0 sector.
Mr Moore reasoned that t was being done to presen good fleet for "the goldenhi in the eyes of the Natio Freight Corporation" • BRS parent company.
He alleged that BRS, v transferring vehicles thath; "spent their best days" contracts and other work the general haulage PE making the average age of fleet higher and the vehk more costly to maintain.
Other allegations levellec BRS included one that • company was "giving av traffic and pretending to I on the 10 per cent kick; from sub-contracting."
Reply planned
Result of this will be that • sub-contractor will soon come the direct contractOr the customer, said Mr MoOl "You don't find NCL, ot n even British Rail, who moving into road hailage great pace, sub-contract traffic to benefit their cc petitors," he said. Now, BRS has accepted invitation from Wheels reply to the allegations print.