Family saga must end
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• A six-year saga of convictions and prohibition notices against the Lewis family which runs Newport-based SJ Haulage & Storage could lead to South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh revoking its licence.
Appearing at a public inquiry before Mervyn Pugh for the third time in a year, the company was told Pugh may not grant the company's application for renewal for 22 vehicles and six trailers. In addition to prohibition notices put on the company's vehicles since the last public inquiry, the company was £1,250 for tachograph and defective tyre offences.
Mervyn Pugh said he would .411° want to know whether these fines had been paid in full, as he viewed fines as a penalty and not a commercial transaction.
For the company, Colin Ward said director Stephen Lewis was recovering from a serious accident to his hand and had been away for seven weeks.
Mervyn Pugh overruled Ward's claim that the prohibition notices had been dealt with.
Adjourning the proceedings until April, Mervyn Pugh said that when he became South Wales Commissioner six years ago, he inherited Ronton Haulage, another company run by the Lewis family. The name Ronton Haulage was engraved on his mind, and then came S J Haulage making regular appearances before him. It was a saga that now had to come to an end.