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Revocation was a serious possibility
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• Drivers' hours and tachograph offences led to a Gwent company receiving a serious warning about its future conduct.
Geoff Lewis Transport Services was called before South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh following convictions for failing to produce tacho records and permitting drivers to take insufficient rest For Lewis, Terry Vaux said this was the first time the company had been called to public inquiry. It realised the seriousness of the offences and undertook to do everything possible to improve the situation, including employing the FTA to undertake and oversee checks.
Managing director Wendy Lewis said the business had begun 14 years ago and now ran four artics and 14 rigids, mainly on multi-drop deliveries. She said that in August 1995 they had moved and there had been a swift expansion in the workload. She
agreed there had been a lack of driver control over defect reporting, saying that it had all become too much. "We did not take things seriously, but now we have the FTA come into our premises on a regular basis to oversee the paperwork," she said.
Warning the company, Mervyn Pugh said revocation of the licence had been a serious possibility as the offences were the most serious he had dealt with for some time. However, the company had acted on advice and that had helped it retain its licence.