Two-year cut for BRT
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• Following two overloading convictions and a vehicle prohibition, Cardiff-based BRT International's licence has been curtailed to expire at the end of September 1988 instead of the end of 1990.
The company holds an international licence authorising 30 vehicles and 40 trailers, 20 vehicles and 32 trailers being in possession. Director Michael Shaw told South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh that a large proportion of its traffic was international with a large fleet of modern tankers.
One of the two convictions related to a sealed trailer brought in from abroad; the other involved a trailer that had been down-rated. The prohibition notice had been imposed on a trailer that was being brought back to this country for repair.
There were two workshops and five inspection pits at the Cowbridge Road premises, which the company had purchased outright. Shaw agreed that the defect book issued to drivers was "more than a little complicated" and he accepted a suggeston that it should be replaced by a simple duplicate book on which drivers should make daily reports, including nil returns. He also agreed to write a letter to each of the company's drivers, letting them know that their jobs depended upon the company retaining its licence.
Mervyn Pugh warned that where operators attracted vehicle prohibitions he was going to cut the duration of their licences, although if everything was all right at the end of the reduced period they would go back to a five-year licence.
If, however, there were any further prohibitions, the operator concerned would be in trouble, as he would know that the maintenance system was not working. What he wanted was good operators operating good vehicles; so far he said, no-one had let him down.