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Banned operator's fleet was 'accident waiting to happen'
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Licence was lost after company failed to comply with maintenance undertakings because director's "mind had been on other things".
AFTER TIIREE public inquiries, Gwyneddbased Jonathan Williams-Ellis, trading as C.ilasfryn H ire, has had itslicence revoked.
Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon had been considering his decision since the firm appeared before him last November (CM 1 December). Dixon disqualified it from holding or obtaining an licence for 12 months.
The company. which ran nine vehicles and two trailers, had broken maintenance undertakings given at two previous public inquiries.
The TC took no action in July 2000 after receiving undertakings that inspections would be carried out every six weeks. with roller brake tests every 12 weeks. In February 2003 he curtailed the licence to six vehicles for one week after being given further undertakings by Williams-Ellis. A vehicle examiner had given evidence that the vehicles were "an accident waiting to happen".
Too busy to check Williams-Ellis told the IC there had been pressures on the business and he had not been in a position to check and double-check because "his mind was on other things".
Making the revocation and disqualification orders with effect from 18 February. theTC said there had been live immediate and two delayed prohibitions since the previous public inquiry. Williams-Ellis had broken his promises. It was not good enough for him to be distracted by other matters and blame other people.
TheTC added that Williams-Ellis had neither addressed the problems after an S-marked prohibition showing a serious lapse in maintenance in May, nor after the vehicle examiner's unsatisfactory report in July.
It was only the public inquiry that appeared to have galvanised hint into action.Nobody was forced to operate goods vehicles, but anyone who chose to must do so properly. •