POINT TUPPER, NS – It's a tense Labour Day weekend for hundreds of truckers and contractors who until recently supplied the NewPage Pulp and Paper Mill.

Nothing was coming in or coming out of the wood delivery gate of the NewPage Paper Mill on Saturday. The mill has not paid truckers and forestry contractors for their last week of pulpwood deliveries.

Some contractors are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. The total owing is estimated at more than four-million dollars.

NewPage officials have said the money could be coming on Tuesday.

When reached by phone, the president of the Northeastern Pulp Truckers Association said the lack of payment is like a slap in the face to contractors and suppliers. Claude Bourgeois says he doubts the money will be coming next week as promised, but at the same time, he hopes he's wrong.

Bourgeois says the company advised contractors to maximize production leading up to the last run on August 13. Payment was supposed to be made two days later, but it didn't happen.

The truckers and contractors believe NewPage should pay up.

The mill is still expected to close indefinitely later this month. It will affect six-hundred mill workers and four-hundred wood contractors and suppliers. Mill employee, Kevin MacAskill says, "It's a concern to the whole area and to everyone that works at the mill. It's a huge employer for the area. It's been around for fifty years and for the province as a whole. It's just devastating."

Bourgeois says contractors aren't upset with local NewPage officials. Their anger is directed at corporate headquarters in Ohio.

With files from CTV's Dan MacIntosh.