Notices bring curtailment
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The licence held by Goldwings (Wales) has been curtailed by two vehicles for two weeks after a spate of prohibition notices.
The company, which trades as Thomas Oil Distributors, of Cardiff, appeared before the Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a disciplinary inquiry in Cardiff.
The TC was told that seven prohibition notices had been imposed on the company's vehicles.
Director Angela Thomas said that after a wheel-loss incident the driver of the vehicle was suspended for failing to carry out his daily walkround check. She blamed a group of travellers living near the company's premises for the incident claiming that they had attempted to remove the wheel but had only managed to remove some of the wheelnuts. Nobody had been injured in the wheel-loss incident.
Goldwings maintained some of the vehicles itself, said Thomas. But the ones that picked up the prohibitions were maintained by a local Volvo dealer.
The company had since changed maintenance contractors and was now using the Volvo dealer in Pontypridd, Thomas added.
The TC pointed out that it was entirely up to the company who it chose to maintain its vehicles, but that Goldwings was still responsible for the standard of the work.
In curtailing the licence, Dixon said he was concerned about the number of prohibi
tions and in particular that, when vehicles were presented for clearance, variation notices had sometimes been issued for additional defects.