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• A Gwent haulage company has won the right to operate additional vehicles and trailers after giving assurances that on-going parking problems have now been overcome.
At a Cardiff public inquiry before South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh, Crosskeys-based Gerry Jones Transport Services had applied to increase the authorisation on its international licence from 20 vehicles and 27 trailers to 35 vehicles and 30 trailers.
Terry Vaux, for Jones, conceded that complaints about vehicles being parked on the road outside the company's operating centre on the South Blackvein Industrial Estate were justified. He said the firm had been overstretched for space at the time but the problem had been resolved by obtaining more space at the depot. The company was in the process negotiating for even more land.
Inspection records showed missing mileages and a failure to sign records. Vaux said these criticisms had been taken on board and rectified. The company had a superb business and was operating a large and efficient fleet, he maintained.
Mervyn Pugh imposed a condition on the licence prohibiting vehicles to be parked outside the operating centre.