The licence held by Newport, Gwent-based Pak Halal Meat was
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revoked after the company failed to appear before South Wales Traffic Commissioner David Dixon.
The IC said the company had been called to a disciplinary inquiry in December 1997 following a series of convictions for offences including overloading, breaches of the tachograph regulations and the unauthorised use of vehicles. There had also been an unsatisfactory maintenance investigation, That hearing was adjourned by the then IC Jahn Mervyn Pugh until a date to be fixed (CM 15-21 Jan 1998), Since then an immediate prohibition had been imposed on a Pak Halal vehicle in November 1998, and there had been convictions for overloading and the nonuse of a tachograph chart, for which the company was fined a total of £1,500.
Various county courtjudgemonts had been made against Pak Halal for amounts between £15,500 and £59,000, and a winding-up order had been made against it.
The directors of Pak Halal Meat had been Mohammed Akhram and Aswan Javed, said Dixon. However, a company search in July1998 showed that Akhram had resigned in May 1996. There was no record of Javed's resignation although he had been told that Javed had resigned as a director in May1997.
Revoking the licence with immediate effect, the IC said that the people running the company were unsuitable to hold a Ranee but it was not possible from the information he had to know who those people were.
The two directors listed at Companies House had not had anything to do with the company for some considerable time, and while he would have wanted to disqualify the present directors from holding a licence, that was not an option that was open to him at the moment.