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What is a heavy-vehicle defect notice?
A heavy-vehicle defect notice is an enforcement notice identifying a vehicle defect and the restrictions, repair and clearance steps required before unrestricted use can resume.
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What are the HVNL speed compliance duties?
Drivers must obey applicable speed limits, and businesses must ensure their transport activities, requests and contracts do not cause or encourage a heavy-vehicle driver to speed.
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What are heavy-vehicle roadworthiness and maintenance duties?
A heavy vehicle used on a road must comply with applicable vehicle standards and must not be unsafe, while each Chain of Responsibility party must control the maintenance and roadworthiness risks within its influence.
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How do the HVNL Primary Duty and WHS laws interact?
The HVNL Primary Duty and work health and safety laws operate alongside each other: one focuses on public risk from heavy-vehicle transport activities and the other on health and safety at work.
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What is a heavy-vehicle Safety Management System?
A heavy-vehicle Safety Management System is the documented and operating system a business uses to identify, control, monitor and improve the safety risks created by its transport activities.
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Does the Heavy Vehicle National Law apply in Western Australia?
No. The HVNL does not govern a journey while it is wholly within Western Australia, but WA has its own CoR, fatigue and heavy-vehicle laws, and a WA or NT business can…
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Who regulates trucking in Australia?
Australian trucking is regulated by a network of national, state and territory bodies covering heavy-vehicle law, roads and access, licensing and registration, policing, workplace safety, environment and local-road management.
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What does the NHVR do?
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator administers and enforces the HVNL in participating states and territories and provides national access, accreditation, compliance and safety services.
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What does the NTC do?
The National Transport Commission is Australia’s transport-reform adviser, developing and maintaining model national land-transport laws and policy reforms for governments to consider and implement.
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What are HVNL codes of practice?
An HVNL code of practice is guidance issued by the NHVR that a court may use as evidence of what was known about a hazard, risk, assessment method or control at the…