Amber failure hits hauliers
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by Guy Sheppard III Derbyshire-based freight clearing agency Amber has ceased trading owing hauliers tens of thousands of pounds just months after another freight management company, FM Ltd, with the same director, went into receivership.
A director of both companies, Dennis Blanchon, is said to be too ill to go on running the Helper-based business.
He called in Nottinghambased Provident Corporate Management to sort out Amber's debts after the firm ceased trading on 21 July.
Tens of owner-drivers were owed money after taking back loads.
Slough-based driver Mark Hull is owed £2,800 by Amber. "A small man like me can't afford to get knocked for that kind of money," he says. "The Government should not allow limited companies to fold like this."
Like Hull, Mike Davies, of M&L haulage in Manchester, used Amber to find backloads. Now he is owed £1,500.
But Provident director David Edmundson says he does not know how much hauliers will get back from Amber.
"It will take some time,for us to get to that," he says.