A group of Route 43 minibus owners and drivers allege that they are being bullied by other bus owners and private citizens, who have teamed up with police officers stationed at Linden.Some of the drivers who allege being bullied.The group,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, which consisted of 30 men, said that they are being bullied for refusing to comply with a $1000 fee to a self-proclaimed Linden Bus Drivers’ Association, in addition to the $100 compulsory fee stipulated by the Town Council.One driver,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Norris King,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, explained, “Of recent, a section of drivers and non-drivers of Linden Bus Park formed an association. We don’t agree with it. The problem that we’re having is that they want to control what we do, how we do and when we do everything…”King continued, “Council charges our buses $100 every time we go there to load, because the buses use their Municipal park. But these people are calling for an additional $1000 every time we stop there to load. Council gives a receipt to us every time we go into the park- now these guys aren’t giving us any receipt, but they ordering us to give them a $1000.”The men said that they are yet to be informed what this $1000 is for.Another driver, Omally Sampson, said that members of the “Association” have close linksScene of a marked off section of the 43 minibus loading area in Lindento the police and have enlisted those officers in their scheme to bully the drivers. When the drivers have finished loading their minibuses at the park, Police are waiting around the corner to relieve them of the passengers, and escort the vehicle to the Mackenzie Police Station.“They can’t put us out of the park, because we already pay the $100 council fee. But the association marked off an area where you have to go to load the bus, and they collect the $1000 there. We decided not to go in that area, so we using a section at the back of the park… But after we finish loading, when we drive out of the park to proceed to Georgetown,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, the police are out there to escort us to the Mackenzie Police Station. They are emptying all the passengers out the bus, because we did not go into the $1000 line that they marked off.”The drivers explained that the police have been harassing them constantly,Wholesale NFL Jerseys Online, and have been trumping up traffic charges, and taking some of them before the court, because they refuse to pay the $1000 fee.One of the drivers said that a Police Inspector by the name of Browne, told him that he has to appear before a Magistrate today, to answer charges, but if he joins the association and pays the money, the harassment will end.“They never invited us to a meeting so that we could give our input in something that will affect us. They didn’t set up a forum where we could have voted on what we agree with and what we don’t,” one driver related.The drivers were saying that while they are not against the transportation association, they think that it’s only fair that as minibus owners and operators,Authentic Jerseys Wholesale, they would have the right, not only to work hassle free, but to be a part of the decision making of what governs their minibus operations.The Mackenzie Police Station informed that Inspector Browne, was in the compound, but unreachable. Several attempts to contact the traffic unit of Mackenzie Police station were also futile.