I am certainly in favor of some changes that would help weed out the growing multitudes of transport & logistics firms that do not pay their invoices.
Although, I do not in any way agree with the line of thought that I see in the prior postings in this thread.
I beleive that we should not be looking at ways of barring entry to new or existing memebers. This smells of protectionism and I do not see how we as a group could controll this.
As we do not trust many of the credit references we are given by prospective clients, why should we trust a member vouching for another.
What we should be doing is , agressively lobbying our politicians and transport ministers regarding the issue of non apyments that have now become an epidemic. In this, I include major bankrupcies that leave smaller carriers holding the bag.
What we should call for is a task force to look into the way we all do business and to implement measures that will correct the present lack of conformity.
I am sure that we have the legal tools to make this work, we just do not know how to use them.
In the USA if a person issues a check without funds knowingly, they have comitted a crime and a simple call to the sherriff wil have them arrested and charge , with generally serious consequences.
Here we have Carriers / brokers that issue such checks, or have work carried out with no intenetion of paying for the service and I have yet to hear of one that has been punished!!
