Community forces public inquiry
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• Complaints from a local community council about the number of trailers being parked at the Cowbridge premises of Vaughan Transport Systems, of Bridgend, brought the company before South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh.
Director David Isaacs said he had been made aware of the situation at a private meeting with the IC in March, and he believed that the problem had been sorted out. It had arisen through bad management on the part of the company's transport manager, who had since been replaced. Yellow lines had been painted to show where the trailers were to go.
Giving an assurance that no more than the permitted number were now parked at Cowbridge, Isaacs said he was aware that it was a serious matter and he had not taken it lightly.
Raymond Barry, vice chairman of Llangan Community Council, said that though the situation had improved in the past three months there were two occasions in July and August when trailers were illegally parked.
A traffic examiner said that he had visited the premises in May and the trailers had been parked satisfactorily.
Taking no action other than to issue the company with a stern warning, Mervyn Pugh directed that the licence renewal, due next July, be considered at a public inquiry.