Director banned indefinitely
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• Jonathan Seward, the director of Cardiff-based Jayward Transport, which has gone into liquidation, was disqualified indefinitely from holding an Operator's Licence when the company's four-vehicle licence was revoked at a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh adjourned an application for an eight-vehicle licence by Seward's wife Cheryl, trading as JC Ward Transport, until next April. But he granted her interim authority to operate.
Jonathan Seward said that his company got into difficulties after he fell ill and it had taken on an unprofitable contract. The company began to lose money very quickly.
He now had no wish to get involved with the haulage industry and was operating a Ford Transit.
For the company, Paul Carless conceded that it had been convicted of a tachograph offence and an axle overload, and that a prohibition notice had been imposed on a vehicle with a defective tyre.
exam. She accepted there had been some unauthorised use of vehicles.
Adjourning the application, Mervyn Pugh said that on the next occasion he would want to see full accounts for four months' trading, and they must indicate where and how the vehicles were being bought. He also required Mrs Seward's accountant to be present.