Chain of Responsibility

Shared responsibility

Everyone in our supply chain, from our company to our contractors, subcontractors, partners and customers, share the responsibility for compliance with the Heavy Vehicle National Law and must take all reasonable steps to prevent breaches of the road transport mass, dimension, loading, speed compliance and work hours laws.

ALL parties are required to adopt practices to facilitate compliance with CoR laws which may include, but are not limited to, and may vary depending on their role in the chain:

• Providing accurate documentation which reflects the actual total mass and dimension of loads and ensuring that all loads do not exceed any applicable mass, dimension, and load requirements.
• Checking the maximum payload weight of the container is appropriate for the goods before packing and can be legally transported from the loading site.
• Ensuring business practices and any request or instruction for road transport do not cause vehicle drivers to operate while fatigued, exceed fatigue, and speed limits, or fail to comply with mass, dimension, and load restraint requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with the National Transport Commission (NTC) Load Restraint Guide that relates to packing, loading and load restraint requirements for the safe carriage of loads.

Ensuring that no person can make a request or put in place any contract which would cause, encourage, or provide an incentive for a driver to drive whilst adversely affected by fatigue and/or more than their applicable work/rest hours limits ALL parties are required to adopt practices to facilitate compliance with CoR laws which may include, but are not limited to, and may vary depending on their role in the chain:

• Providing accurate documentation which reflects the actual total mass and dimension of loads and ensuring that all loads do not exceed any applicable mass, dimension, and load requirements.
• Checking the maximum payload weight of the container is appropriate for the goods before packing and can be legally transported from the loading site.
• Ensuring business practices and any request or instruction for road transport do not cause vehicle drivers to operate while fatigued, exceed fatigue, and speed limits, or fail to comply with mass, dimension, and load restraint requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with the National Transport Commission (NTC) Load Restraint Guide that relates to packing, loading and load restraint requirements for the safe carriage of loads.
• Ensuring that no person can make a request or put in place any contract which would cause, encourage, or provide an incentive for a driver to drive whilst adversely affected by fatigue and/or more than their applicable work/rest hours limits.

The information in this statement is a summary only.

For more information, please refer to our Chain of Responsibility Policy.