Taff Ely: yes but shorter
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• Maintenance problems have led to the licences of Taff Ely Transport and Taff Ely Borough Council only being renewed for reduced periods. The decisions were made at public inquiries on consecutive days in Cardiff before South Wales Licensing Authority and Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh.
Taff Ely Transport, which operates a fleet of 17 buses, had its PSV operator's licence renewed for a 12-month period. A number of prohibition notices had been placed on its vehicles since it appeared before the then-South Wales Commissioner, Ronald Jackson.
The company and the borough courted, which had applied for the renewal of its goods vehicles operator's licence for 30 vehicles, gave undertakings to have their vehicles inspected every four weeks. They also agreed to use a system of no-returns for drivers to report defects daily — and to introduce a flow chart showing when their vehicles were due for inspection. They agreed not to allow a vehicle out on the road until any defects had been repaired.
The borough council's licence was renewed until January 1989. In both cases Mervyn Pugh indicated that it was his policy to renew licences for a shorter period than the full five years when there had been maintenance problems so that he could check that new systems were working.