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tkil held by Swansea
30-trailer licence based David Thomas & Son (Sketty) has been renewed for 18 months only at a Cardiff public inquiry after South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh criticised the company's weak management over the past year.
Mervyn Pugh said that the prohibitions, issued following a fleet inspection carried out by vehicle examiners, clearly showed that there had been a failure in planned maintenance.
For the company, Tim Jones said he felt the 1994 report was incomplete as it failed to recognise that there had been no problems when a fleet inspection was curried out 12 months earlier.
Mervyn Pugh said that the defects on the vehicles had constituted a danger to the public.
Jones said there had been staff problems at the garage. And he agreed that the company had foolishly used a fleet shunter without tax, insurance or a test certificate to "get trailers in".
Vehicle examiner Byron Huball said that despite the drastic difference in the results of the 1993 and 1994 fleet inspections, he felt he had enough confidence to sup. port the company getting another chance with a short-term licence.
Clive Gill, manager of the Anunanford Testing Station, agreed and said a short-term licence would be in order if the recom mended maintenance system was adopted.
Granting an 18-month licence, Mervyn Pugh said he required the company's vehicles to go through fresh annu• al tests within the next four weeks.
He warned that if any vehicle attracted a prohibition notice indicating a significant maintenance failure the licence would be revoked, and Andrew John Thomas and its other directors would be disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence.