ransport Haulier 'cavalier'
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Swansea-based A&M Transport Services lost its margin for increase after Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Jenkins concluded that the company had showed a "cavalier approach to industry regulations".
Cutting the company's licence from 18 vehicles to 16, the DTC told its management: "It would have been substantially worse if you had not responded to the advice given you."
A&M had been called before the DM after being convicted, along with six of its drivers, of drivers' hours and overloading offences by the Pert Talbot mag istrates last March. Fines of £9,685 imposed on the company were subsequently reduced to £1,885 on appeal, Paul Cowper, appearing for A&M, said none of the offences had involved the company in encouraging its drivers to break the hours' rules, and there had been no financial gain from the offences. The company had since changed its procedures and had even brought in the Vehicle Inspectorate to give a seminar to the drivers and other staff.
Castigating the company for failing to report the convictions, Jenkins said: "By spring of last year you had fallen abysmally below the standard required."