LSS specialises in assisting organisations manage their heavy vehicle compliance obligation’s to ensure truck safety within their supply chains.

The concept of Chain of Responsibility (CoR) exists within the New Zealand Land Transport Act 1988 and the Health & safety Work Act 2015, meaning that New Zealand organisations using heavy vehicles must ensure that they and their supply chain partners:

• understand their duties for managing heavy vehicle compliance & truck safety
  
• regularly check that they comply with these obligations & duties

 New Zealand laws make not only a truck driver responsible for the compliance of trucks on NZ roads, but any other “person” involved that contributed to a truck compliance breach. A “person” could be a site loading a truck, or a customer of a trucking business.

 Both you and the business you represent could be held responsible by authorities if an incident occurs involving a truck operated by your business internally, or via an outsourced provider, within your supply chain. For example you could be at risk if: 

• A load is improperly restrained and falls off a truck on a motorway
• A load exceeds legal axle or gross weight limits
• An accident occurs because a truck driver is speeding or operating beyond legal driving hour limits
• You engage an unlicensed truck operator