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Director will be 'eased out'
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• An invitation from the managing director of W L Bailey (Pontypool) for a vehicle examiner to go and check the company's system of maintenance led to the adjournment of consideration of disciplinary action against the company's licence, together with its renewal application.
The company was seeking renewal in respect of 18 vehicles before South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh.
It had previously appeared before the LA in November 1989, when the licence was cut from 25 vehicles to 10 and truncated to expire in January
ail
(CM 7-13 December 1989).
The company's managing director, 72-year-old James Lewis, agreed that he had twice made promises about maintenance. However, there were reasons for the present position. When the vehicle examiner called in January he had been ill. It was the first time he had taken a week off in 57 years and he felt he had been treated rather harshly.
The vehicle examiner had said that the flow chart was not to his liking. A Road Haulage Association chart was obtained within four days and entered up for 12 months. The examiner had been "a bit keen", saying that inspections should be every 14 days, not 13 or 15 days, and Lewis said he pleaded guilty to that. Ile agreed that six vehicles had failed their annual test on first presentation.
Mervyn Pugh said this was the third time the company had appeared before him and it seemed it still had not totally got the message.
Lewis accepted he was coming towards the end of the road. Everything that had been requested had been done, and he asked the LA to "ease" him out, rather than the "sudden chop". Drivers had been with him for 30 years and he had hoped to go through the winter and then tempt someone to take over the contracts.
Agreeing to a suggestion that the vehicle examiner go and see the system working, Mervyn Pugh said he would adjourn until that had been done. The vehicle examiner could then recommend how many vehicles the company could safely keep. It was to the company's credit that 12 vehicles had passed the MoT test: he was not going to "chop" Lewis — he would see him retire with pride.