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1 • Maintenance problems have led to the licence held by Rhonddabased Fernvale Transport being cut from 28 vehicles to 18 with 20 trailers.
For the company, Paul Carless told South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh that 12 vehicles and 14 trailers had passed the annual test in the past four weeks.
Director John Deen said that Fernvale's sole customer was the Christie-Tyler group. The company had operated since 1962 and this was the first time it had been called before the LA, All the maintenance was handled by an outside contractor; many of the defects found had been on trailers rented from Central Trailer Rentco, Fernvale had written to Rentco and had been told that the system had been rectified.
The four specified vehicles that had not been recently tested were off the road and being cannibalised for spares, said Deem In that case, said the LA, it would be better to remove them from the licence.
Questioned about convictions for three vehicle excise duty offences since 1991, Deen said Fernvale had installed a computer system and it had taken 12 months to get it right. The failure to pay vehicle excise duty was not due to any financial difficulty.
Reducing the authorisation, and directing that the renewal of the licence in March 1995 be considered at a further public inquiry, Mervyn Pugh said he felt there were too many vehicles on the licence.