New company will face investigation
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• An Aberdarebased company was granted a licence for two vehicles and two trailers after South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh accepted the surrender of a licence held by its predecessor.
Parkload, of Farm Road, Aberaman, Aberdare, had applied for a new national licence authorising two vehicles and three trailers.
Director Christine Thomas admitted that it had operated outside the law when the previous company, Dealmount, continued to trade despite being struck off by Companies I louse.
She said that Parkload was currently operating, although the company did not hold an Operator's Licence. She now realised that it was an illegal operation.
Maintaining that it was not a Ca SP of a "phoenix company", Geoffrey Williams, for the company, said it was an unusual and unfortunate situation. Dealmount had been an "off-the-shelf" company registered in December 1995 with the accountants' address being given as the operating centre. Dealmount had been granted interim authority in February 1996 with a full licence in February 1997. No accounts were filed with Companies House and in August 1997 the company's bankers froze its account.
Granting the licence, Mervyn Pugh said Parkload would be investigated and might well be prosecuted for the unauthorised use of vehicles, but that was not for him to decide.