Duncan escapes with warning
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director of Cwm bran-based Duncan Green Plant Hire Ltd apologised for being very abusive to Traffic Area staff over the telephone, when his company escaped with a warning at a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry.
The company holds a restricted licence for two vehicles. It had been called before South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh following the issue of an immediate prohibition notice in February indicating neglect and an apparent change of operating centre without notification.
Managing director Duncan Green maintained that the company had applied for a variation in early December and produced a copy of the newspaper advertisement and copy letters.
Green apologised for his attitude on the telephone, saying he had been driving his car when his telephone rang and he was told he had not done something which he knew he had.
Mervyn Pugh said that nothing had been received at the Traffic Area Office. However, letters did get mislaid in the post from time to time and he was prepared to give the company the benefit of the doubt. Such a situation was a general warning to all operators that it was up to them to make applications and to check that they arrived at the Traffic Area Office. Operators would be well advised to take copies, and send applications by recorded delivery if they could not deliver them.
The LA had commented that maintenance had clearly not been satisfactory, and Green replied that at the time the prohibition was issued major work was being undertaken at the company's yard and the maintenance had been contracted out.