What is the legal position if the truck is checked by two employees, deemed fit for use as per the requirements of the legal safety checks but then a fault occurs during the journey, there is an accident, a fatality of another road user, who is to blame? How can you prove who is at fault? Is it a bad safety check? or the fault could have been caused by debri from the road during the journey which may not have been noticeable but later in the journey manifested itself as a major break failure.
Surely you can't prove if the safety check was bad and you also cant prove if the damaged occured during the journey, unless there is some kind of photographic evidence or a video recording. You can collect fragmentary evidence in terms of the break fault and also by reviewing the previous logs of the safey check sof the employees and their driving record but surely in a sense you would be making large assumptions about the cause of the accident?
Simple fix. Make the consumer pay a little extra for the service which will allow the driver to be paid the downtime while the brakes get repaired properly.
Good Idea. Obviously the cost could be brought down to miles traveled and then a per mile "brakes job" could be tacked on the customers' bills. Thanks for the comment!
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bongiovi11 8 months ago
Ambulance chasers.
trucker5933 9 months ago
What is the legal position if the truck is checked by two employees, deemed fit for use as per the requirements of the legal safety checks but then a fault occurs during the journey, there is an accident, a fatality of another road user, who is to blame? How can you prove who is at fault? Is it a bad safety check? or the fault could have been caused by debri from the road during the journey which may not have been noticeable but later in the journey manifested itself as a major break failure.
OscilloscopeRhythms 1 year ago
Surely you can't prove if the safety check was bad and you also cant prove if the damaged occured during the journey, unless there is some kind of photographic evidence or a video recording. You can collect fragmentary evidence in terms of the break fault and also by reviewing the previous logs of the safey check sof the employees and their driving record but surely in a sense you would be making large assumptions about the cause of the accident?
OscilloscopeRhythms 1 year ago
dude.. that law is not funny :P
ikhijmaarjijniet 1 year ago
In Arkansas, you must carry liability insurance with the minimum of 25,000 per person for personal injury with a max of $50,000 per accident.
Most CMV's must carry $1,000,000...
But I'm sure it's all about people for you. ;-)
freighter55 2 years ago
Simple fix. Make the consumer pay a little extra for the service which will allow the driver to be paid the downtime while the brakes get repaired properly.
TagGeorge 2 years ago
Good Idea. Obviously the cost could be brought down to miles traveled and then a per mile "brakes job" could be tacked on the customers' bills. Thanks for the comment!
ArkansasAccidentLaw 2 years ago