D Jones & Son to Cease Trading

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RE: D Jones & Son to Cease Trading
Today (15th February 2018) the partners of the firm D Jones and Son of Acrefair were required to be appear before the Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones. Gary Jones appeared in person but his father David Jones did not attend. Having heard from Gary Jones of the reasons why the business ceased operating with only a very short notice in December last year the Traffic Commissioner then indicated that his formal findings were that the partnership had failed to operate licensed services, that no notification had been given of the withdrawal of the services as required and that no contact had been made with the Traffic Commission to indicate the change of circumstances that the business had ceased trading. He indicated that the failure had resulted in major issues for the travelling public, that the local authorities had to incur costs to deal with the cessation and also there was a complete absence of responsibility to the Traffic Commissioner. Nick Jones in announcing his penalty indicated that as a result of not notifying the Traffic Commissioner as required the partners had lost their good repute and as a result they would be disqualified indefinitely from holding a licence, from applying for a new licence or for holding the position of Transport Manger. He did indicate that an application could be made in the future but that the circumstances would have to be carefully considered. He also imposed a financial penalty based on £550 for each ‘disc’ on the licence. As there were nineteen such discs the fine was therefore £550 x 19 = £10,450. He ordered that £5,000 of the fine was to be paid in 56 days and the remainder within a month thereafter.