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TC gives family business another shot at success
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A family-owned concrete firm facing "multi-national competition" has kept its licence intact after appearing before the Welsh Traffic Commissioner, following a string of offences.
Ammanford-based David Roberts, who holds a restricted licence for five concrete carrying vehicles, had been called before the Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Port Talbot disciplinary inquiry because of prohibition notices. convictions, a vehicle not being parked at the operating centre and failures to reply to letters from the Traffic Area.
For Roberts, Roger Howells said that following a 1200 fine for failing to ensure the return of tachograph charts in 1999, steps had been taken to prevent any recurrence, with tachograph charts being examined weekly. The two prohibitions related to an oil leak in 1999 and a defective load-sensing valve in April 2001. Roberts had received a visit from a vehicle examiner in March of this year. Advice given had been accepted and the reporting systems changed. It was also the intention to install a rolling road brake tester.
The parking complaint related to an occasion when a driver parked his vehicle on a building site because his wife had been taken to hospital for the birth of their child.
Producing copies of replies to Traffic Area Office letters, Howells maintained that Roberts had replied to correspondence, although he accepted that there had been delay in respect of one reply.
"A few things have gone wrong in the past," said Howells. "Mr Roberts is a well respected person in the area and he has put minor wrongs right. He is up against multi-national competition and he is the only family business in the area."
Accepting that the prohibitions were not at the serious end of the scale, the TC said that he was satisfied that maintenance had been improved after points had been brought to Roberts' attention.