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OW1NERDR1VER organisations in the North-West and in Bra ford are reported to have sto i ped operating and drivers in ome areas of the British As • iation of Owner Drivers are ipenly feuding.
he freight office of the No th-Western Owner Drivers As ociation, which split from th BAOD last year, is rep • rted to have foundered for lac of work.
embers, some of whom ha e invested large sums Lithe off e, have had little business anu it is reported that me bers are disenchanted wi its methods.
he Bradford office has had ye few members for some U e and one driver told CM th t it had been only a matter of time before the operation ha folded.
s the remaining offices ke p going, meetings that ha e been held on a regular ba is between the managers of th various freight offices ha e stopped and advertising fo both members and loads by o ner-drivers' organisations has dried up.
But as the organisations' operations run down, drivers have reportedly been involved in incidents such as sabotage by the addition of sugar to dery tanks." In one case a driver was "run off the road" by another owner-driver.