TDG company's redundancies
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A TRANSPORT Development Group company, McKelvie of Paisley, is to lay off 33 drivers, seven maintenance workers and an unspecified number of office staff.
Ralph Taylor, managing director, said: "Over the past few years we have been providing a more specialised range of services and have been cutting back on our general haulage, especially long distance transport between Scotland and England.
"It is a very competitive business and it has been very difficult to maintain continuity."
A Transport and General Workers Union spokesman said: "We are in consultation with management at the moment. The job losses are because the company has not been able to establish any increases over the past few years and they have had five increases in fuel prices recently."
He added: "The whole problem is caused because the haulage industry does not have a system of tendering for contracts so the companies end up cutting each others' throats. At the end of the day it is always the drivers who lose out."
McKelvie wants the redundancies to take place at the earliest possible opportunity, but the TGWU is allowed a 30-day consultation period by law. Mr Taylor said: "We will be continuing our heavy haulage, truck rental, contract hire, contract warehousing and carton assembly."