DIRECTORS BANNED FOR LIFE
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• Crynant Transport and one of its directors, transport manager Florence Morrison, were disqualified from holding or obtaining an 0-licence for life, and the company's licence was revoked, after it failed to attend a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry. South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh has also disqualified the company's other two directors, Merlin Morgan and Pat English, for five years.
Holding that the company was no longer of good repute, Mervyn Pugh said the company had a considerable history and it was right and proper that it should be recorded. In September 1 993 information was received from South Wales police that the company was operating vehicles without insurance. Checks revealed that none of the vehicles specified on the licence were taxed and a prohibition notice had been issued to one of the company's vehicles in October 1992.
As a result, Crynant's licence was suspended in October 1993. At a subsequent public inquiry DLA Lyndon Davies was told that all but one of the company's vehicles were operating off the road. The company volunteered to reduce the authorisation on the licence From 11 vehicles to six. The hearing was adjourned until a date to be fixed for the company to prove that its vehicles were properly taxed and insured.
Crynant was prosecuted in September 1 993 for failing to display an 0-licence disc and for allowing an unqualified driver to drive one of its vehicles, said Mervyn Pugh. There were convictions for tachograph offences at Barry and at Ystradgyblais in February of this year, and the firm was fined at Neath for using a stolen test certificate, the forgery of a test certificate, and using a vehicle without a test certificate. There were also convictions for using a vehicle without insurance and for obstructing a police officer. A number of vehicles were impounded
by the Customs & Excise after it was Found that they were using red diesel.