The truckers’ body has just set fire to fraud and corruption conducted by municipal authorities around the country. The Road Freight Association (RFA) has just won a High Court case where it levelled these charges against a number of municipalities, for practices under the banner of incident management and public safety. In a recent issue of FTW, Gavin Kelly, RFA technical and operations manager, said that the association had “uncovered a number of schemes perpetrated by fire authorities where they used their powers to extort vast sums of money from the transport industry”. And the High Court found in favour of the RFA, allowing it to set up a class action against the municipalities and fire services to recover the money the members had paid the corrupt officials. “The court also allowed the transporters to claim the legal costs as the whole practice was illegal and unlawful,” Kelly added.
