ARC tells driver he owes £16,000 • An owner-driver forced
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to retire through illness has been billed for more than £16,000 by ARC Northern which earlier this year refused to hand back more than £4,000 bond money he paid while he worked for the company (CM 21-27 May).
John Williams had wanted the bond money to pay for a driver — when ARC refused he returned his vehicle. Now he has received a contract haulage monthly statement which shows that he owes the company £20,547.77, minus £4,321.23 bond money, leaving £16,226 in outstanding vehicle payments.
ARC strongly denies Williams had asked to employ a replacement driver to cover his work at Penmaenmawr Quarry, North Wales, but Williams says he had a driver ready to start. Williams says ARC has been offered £14,000 for the Foden eightwheel tipper by a Sandbach truck dealer. It would still leave him facing a £2,000 bill.
I=1 Owner-driver Eddie Clinton, who worked for Tarmac firm Nash Readymix at Redditch until May, is claiming that his former employer has offered him just 218,000 for a Mercedes concrete mixer valued in October at £29,000.
Clinton, who faces a bill of £33,000 for payments on the returned vehicle, is also angered that Nash Readymix is continuing to operate the truck with another driver: the company was unable to comment.