No licence for nearly 12 months
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*A Gwent operator who admitted operating without a licence for almost 12 months has to wait to see whether or not his bid for an 0-licence is successful.
Carl Thomas, trading as CD Transport, was seeking o licence for six vehicles based at Abergavenny at a Cardiff public inquiry. He was granted interim authority to operate in September.
For Thomas, Arwel Roderick told South Wales Traffic Commissioner David Dixon that he had previously been involved in a
partnership with a Kevin Williams, trading as KC Haulage. However, that firm had gone into liquidation in the autumn of 1996. After Thomas had admitted operating without a Operator must wait for licence between then and the grant of application decision. the interim authority, Roderick sought an adjournment, saying there were matters on which he hod not been fully briefed.
Agreeing to an adjournment, Dixon said he was in the business of granting licences, not refusing them, but he had to establish that Thomas met the requirement to be of good repute. He wanted if possible to be in a position to grant Thomas a full licence, but he needed the full picture of what had gone on in the past, including problems about maintenance.