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There is a lot of activity in the transport industry around Chain of Responsibility supplier audits where prime contractors carry out audits of their transport suppliers’ COR compliance.

This stems from the principle of shared responsibilities in the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL), Section 26A, which states that the safety of transport activities relating to a heavy vehicle is a shared responsibility of each party in the COR.

This initially caused parties in the chain to think they were responsible for the behaviour of other parties, but this has since been clarified by the National Heavy