Map chain-of-responsibility duties for a business in a heavy vehicle supply chain
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the client's contracts, loading and scheduling procedures, delivery timeframes and incident records, build a table of each transport function the client performs, the parties it deals with, and the controls it has for each safety risk, with the document behind each control, and list functions with no documented control.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide which functions make the client a party in the chain, whether its controls meet the primary duty so far as reasonably practicable, what its executives must do to meet their due diligence duty, and which law applies to each route.
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the client's contracts, loading and scheduling procedures, delivery timeframes and incident records, build a table of each transport function the client performs, the parties it deals with, and the controls it has for each safety risk, with the document behind each control, and list functions with no documented control. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Confirm the instructions, the jurisdiction and the complete relevant material before starting.
- Confirm the functions the client actually performs, because parties are defined by function, not job title.
- Check the law applied reflects the HVNL reforms that commenced on 1 August 2026.
- Check each control in the table against the client document cited.
- Check the output against the source documents named in it before it is relied on.
Sources
- NHVR: Chain of responsibility · 2026-10-18
- NHVR: Primary duty · 2026-10-18
- NHVR: Heavy Vehicle National Law and regulations · 2026-10-18
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.