Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon has imposed a oneweek suspension
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on a Pontypridd haulier following problems with prohibition notices and convictions. Ceri Wyn Lewis, trading as C Lewis Haulage, also had the margin on his licence slashed from 16 vehicles and six trailers to accommodate the one vehicle he now operates, with trailers.
Vehicle examiner Stephen Cook told a Cardiff public inquiry that Lewis had been issued with a warning letter after a fleet inspection in 1996. He said he had carried out a further fleet inspection earlier this year which showed some problems had not been overcome, including too large an interval between maintenance inspections and incomplete records, In 1998 Lewis had been convicted of using a vehicle without an annual test certificate, plate or 0-licence.
Lewis said: "There are shortcomings and I admit to that. Since I spoke to Mr Cook I told my maintenance contractor it wasn't good enough." He could not explain why the inspection intervals had been so long—in one case 31 weeks—stressing that the vehicle went into the maintenance contractors every week. Lewis said the business n concentrated on contair haulage and employed one dris, "It is our duty to keep going him," he said. "We don't want expand, and when he retires w probably pull out of transpo;
Cutting the licence, and m ing the suspension order, the said: "It's not really a big task keep one vehicle in order. I IN heard about a fairly happy-, lucky attitude to running this w cle and to operator licensing."