A row has erupted between the former directors of a Frome, Somerset haulage firm that has collapsed into administration with the loss of 150 jobs.
BDR Logistics, which has a colourful history that includes a month where it ran trucks without an O-licence, ceased trading on 16 April with a message on its answerphone telling callers: "BDR has ceased trading and steps are being taken to put the company into liquidation.
"An administrator has been appointed and will be writing to you shortly."
Insolvency specialist SF Plant has now been appointed to the firm, which is understood to owe £700,000 to HM Revenue & Customs alone.
BDR Logistics was set up to take on the business of sole trader Brian Rayner, who traded as Brian Rayner Transport, when he was declared bankrupt in late 2008.
The directors were initially Rayner's wife, Amanda, Paul Ingram and Ivor Chalker. However, Mrs Rayner resigned her directorship on 30 December 2009.
She told MT it was a mutual decision and she left following a row, two weeks after resigning as the firm's transport manager.
However, judging from her posts on social networking site Facebook, there is no love lost between her and Ingram, BDR Logistics' FD.
Her Facebook comments included serious allegations, and on 17 April, she wrote: "[Have] just heard BDR are no more, feel really bad for everyone out of a job except Clive [Rayner, BDR's HR manager and Brian Rayner's brother] and Paul [Ingram]."
This was followed on 19 April by another post: "[Have] heard that Paul and Clive are going to get their faces rearranged today - probably won't happen, but it gave me sweet dreams thinking about it."
And a day later she added a potentially defamatory comment about Ingram's past employment.
Ingram says: "I'm disgusted by it and I'm taking advice on it - it's slanderous, abusive and incorrect."
Mrs Rayner is now a director at a company called AJF Transport in Wanstrow, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
AJF Transport is the successor firm to the operation run by sole trader Andrew James Flagg, who had his O-licence revoked after he lost his repute. The firm is run by Karen Flagg and Mrs Rayner, who joined in March 2010. It applied for an O-licence in October 2009 with an interim in place.
