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'Cavalier' firm gets suspension
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A Swansea company whose managing director had "a cavalier approach" to 0-licensing has had its licence suspended for 28 days.
Al Scaffolding (Wales) had been called bi. fore Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Jenkins at a Port Talbot disciplinary inquiry after the company's only whicle had been issued with a prohibition notice.
Vehicle examiner Wayne Price told the hearing that the ccmpany's truck attracted a prohibition for a damaged front tyre and a loose wheelnut.
Acting on a tip-off Price made a surprise visit to the firm's premises. He said it had been alleged that four of the tyres on the vehicle were bald, but when he inspected the +Abide he found new tyres had been fitted.
Among the shortcomings highlighted by the vehicle examin 3r were a lack of forward planning of preventive maintemince, no driver defect reporting system, no evidence of a maintenance contract, and no records for inspection.
Managing director Ceri Davies blamed "gypsies" for the theft of the maintenance records. He added that the portable office on the company's site was broken into four or bre times, and this coincided with the arrival of travellers cl me to the yard.
He told the inquiry: "The door had been kicked in and the office was trashed. I have now set the office up at home, mid the records are secure."
Davies said he initially submitted his vehicle for maintemince to a company on the same site as himself, and he had submitted a copy of the contract to the Traffic Area Office.
He told the DTC that maintenance was now carried out by another contractor and he had all the systems in place required by the vehicle examiner. He has also recently put his vehicle through an annual test, which it passed.
The DTC said: "I am very concerned at the way this operation is and has been run until this time." He accused Davies of a "cavalier approach" to undertakings given in support of ins 0-licence.