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Foreman fitter paperwork shy
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• W L Bailey (Pontypoop's licence has been cut from 25 to 10 vehicles, and truncated so that it expires next January.
South Wales L A John Mervyn Pugh — heard that despite promises to implement the system of maintenance recommended by the Traffic Area, inspection sheets were unsigned and the company had collected two prohibition notices indicating neglect.
Managing director James Lewis said he had stressed to his foreman fitter that the future of the company was at stake, but that individual still refused to sign inspection sheets, because he did not like paperwork.
Lewis said that he had been reluctant to sack the man, who was a long-serving employee, but he eventually left in January after one of the company's vehicles had collected a prohibition endorsed "neglect". A second such prohibition was issued in April, when one of the company's vehicles was found to have oil and air leaks.
Admitting that the company had fallen down, Lewis said he had no defence and had had more bad luck recently than he had had in 50 years of operation. The company was currently running 11 vehicles.
For Bailey's Geoffrey Williams said that clear consequences had flowed from the LA's warning being ignored, but it had not been the result of wickedness, but of human frailty and extraordinary bad luck.
Cutting the licence, and directing that all the company's vehicles be inspected by the Department's vehicle examiners before Christmas, Mervyn Pugh said that Lewis had broken his promise to implement the South Wales Traffic Area's maintenance system.
He commented that drivers and fitters in South Wales who thought that filling in pieces of paper was above them were fools.