Clare hauliers are warning several other large companies are facing the same fate at Target Express if the government doesn’t take immediate action to ease fuel costs on the industry.
Last night, the haulage company confirmed that it is to cease trading, with the loss of almost 400 jobs, after the Revenue Commissioners froze the company’s bank accounts.
The Irish Road Haulage Association is awaiting a decision by Minister Michael Noonan on an Essential User Fuel Rebate for the Haulage Industry to sustain jobs in the transport sector, and protect Irish exports.
Bunratty Haulier and IRHA President Eoin Gavin says the rebate is needed now more than ever
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The owner of haulage firm Target Express has hit out at the Revenue Commissioners for freezing its bank accounts.
A small group employees are now staging a sit in at the depot in Little Island in Cork, while some of the company’s vans have been removed by the vehicle owners, Northgate.
Seamus McBrien who operates Target Express maintains he already paid a million euro he owned to Revenue but proposals to clear another 300 thousand by September was rejected .
