Scrap haulier has licence cut short
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• Maintenance problems and a conviction for failing to tax a --11) vehicle have led to the licence held by Eifion Davies & Partners, of Port Talbot being cut to expire at the end of next February.
South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority Alan Hourlet was told that the firm's vehicles, which were used to carry scrap out of the Port Talbot Steelworks, had attracted a number of quite serious prohibition notices, two of which indicated a significant maintenance failure.
Eifion Wyn Davies, the firm's proprietor, said he accepted that the maintenance system had not worked but he could not understand why. He agreed that the fitter was also responsible for look ing after plant and machinery but said that all the company's maintenance was now being carried out by the Swansea Truck Centre.
Asked about the vehicle excise duty conviction, Davies accepted he had "tried to be clever", saying that the vehicle had been working off the road on site until 21 January It had gone on the road on 25 January with the intention being to tax it from February.
"Sadly, I am now wiser and poorer," said Davies.
Hourlet said he took a very serious view of the two prohibitions that had been marked as indicating a significant maintenance failure.