Simon B
Correct on both counts.
Both myself and James worked for Clearstone and then Pathway and we do both regret it, they were bad companies to work for and thats why we made our decisons to leave them!!
What you must ask yourself is this: What does this prove, does it prove that myself or James knowingly took money from customers with the foresight that the company was going to go under or does it prove that we both worked for companies that made big mistakes and we know they were big mistakes. If you worked with the both of us at these companies then you would know that we didn’t agree with what went on and made our voices heard. When Clearstone went under I had only been working there for 3 months so if that warrants me as being a contributor to them going under then you must make up your own mind.
As for working at Pathway, I have already stated what happened there.
I can understand that a select number people aren’t going to be happy that we have set up our own training school, this is due to them being ignorant to the fact of who we are, anyone can write stuff about someone, but how much of it is really truth, but why shouldn’t we have set up our own company, we saw the way that it was handled incorrectly and we didn’t like it, we are as passionate about this industry as any of you are and have worked for some companies who have hurt the industry, we could have just walked away without a care in the world but that isn’t either of us. We want to be a part of the revitalisation of the industry, we know it wont be easy but it can be done if like minded individuals work together and advise each other as opposed to just jumping on a bandwagon of condemnation. When Network began we were contacted by Trading Standards about our involvement with our previous companies and they investigated us and were happy that we weren’t any part of what went before.
As for the website I have stated that it will be changed, I realise it doesn’t reflect what is realistic about the industry but I only stated this yesterday. Give us a bit of time to get it changed - I am working on it. If all you want to do now is to condemn us for who we worked for in the past then you are well within your rights to do so, but in doing this, if you are trying to prove that we are running a company that will repeat the unethical actions of our past employers then you couldn’t be further from the truth. Join the time will tell gang and you will see that in years to come after we have achieved and maintained what we have set out to do, that your initial judgement of us was misguided, that’s not to say I can’t see why, put us under scrutiny if you must, you will see that we are trying to set a record straight that we didn’t set wrong in the first place. How frustrating must that be? You may reply how frustrated the customer who lost his / her money may be and I do sympathise with them but as we wasn’t the people who took the companies under then why should we have to justify us running our own company because of others past mistakes, you must understand that we love this industry that we have chosen as our careers and want to enhance it not harm it.
Don’t be so quick to judge me and James as people just because we were associated and by associated I mean worked for these companies. I.e Employed - Not Owned.
If you are reading this thread then ask your yourself, should an employee of a company be held accountable for a companies actions when they aren’t a shareholder, director or affiliate of the company. For the record both Clearstone and Pathway both owed James a lot of money by the time he left, I was a bit more fortunate and had left both companies before anything happened as I didn’t agree with the ethics of the company. You can judge us on how we run Network HGV and that is all.
As for your statement that you can prove 100% of what you have stated. Please post on here a link or anything that documents myself or James Swift as being anything other than employees of these companies.
For the record, a third party designed the website and we will admit that we got it wrong. I assure you that this will change as soon as is possible.
I designed the Facebook page, in which the content is edited by me and me alone, have a look here:
facebook.com/pages/Network-H … 2384777390
I have edited it to help the driver with as much impartial advice as is possible.
I now feel I have answered as many questions about who Network HGV are, who the directors and what we are trying to achieve.
This I feel is more than enough information for anyone who has questions about us. That being said I am always more than happy to answer or assist anyone of you with any further enquires that you have about our driver training.
Regards
Steve Manning
Network HGV
That’s just a thought in case there are any cynical folks out there who might think that you’ve left the other site(s) running for a reason.
