Eight days for re-test or revocation
Page 17
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• Cardiff-based ME Foley (Contractors) has been given eight days to put its vehicles through a new annual test, or face having its licence suspended or revoked.
The company, which was granted a five-vehicle restricted licence in November last year, appeared before South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh following the issue of a number of prohibitions and an unsatisfactory report from a Department of Transport vehicle examiner.
For the company, Christopher Childs said the company had fallen behind with its paperwork. A drivers' daily nil defect reporting system was in operation, and reported faults were acted upon, but there were no records.
Adjourning the proceedings for eight days, Mervyn Pugh said he did not want to put people out of business. However, his role was to protect the public and see that the vehicles he licensed were safe. The company's were not, he said.
It was likely that he would cut the licence so that it expired at the end of the year, said Mervyn Pugh. On the next occasion he would look at whether the company required to have an international licence to cover its work, He also said its associated firm All-Waste was heading for trouble having already attracted two prohibition notices, one of which was endorsed as showing a significant maintenance failure.