Pugh adjourns V&RD hearin
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• South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh decided to adjourn consideration of an application to renew the threevehicle licence held by Swansea hauliers V&RD Transport because the firm is being prosecuted for a tachograph offence.
For the firm, Cyril Garbutt confirmed that Llanelli magistrates had convicted it of an offence relating to the condition of a trailer. He said that the trailer had been unladen and was being taken for welding prior to being submitted for its MoT test.
Mervyn Pugh said that the public inquiry had been adjourned previously as it had been indicated that the firm would be pleading not guilty.
Garbutt told the LA that a further prosecution was pending over a tachograph which had worked for only half a journey: it was accepted that the firm would have to plead guilty.
Adjourning the hearing, Mervyn Pugh said he could not deal with the application until that case had been dealt with. He was concerned about the new regulations, which laid down that an operator convicted of repeated road traffic offences no longer met the requirement to be of good repute. If he concluded that the firm no longer met that requirement, it would not be entitled to a licence.