whisky-dave wrote:
On Jun 3, 12:40 am, "Unbeliever" wrote:
ARWadsworth wrote:
charles wrote:
In article ,
ARWadsworth wrote:

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Lights are not on the list. It's not needed in this case.

lights on a vehicle have to be in working order - even during
daylight hours.

The lights are not on the check list as we do not need the
apprentices to check them on a weekly basis because of the way the
vans are parked up at night.

Don't really want to **** you off Adam, but obligatory lights,
tyres, oil, horn, water and washer fluid should be checked on a
daily basis by the *driver* whether on a weekly 'list' or not - as
your firm and drivers will find out if the VOSA pulls the vehicles
in for a roadside inspection, and if these are involved in a
serious accident and VOSA gets involved, they go even deeper, and
dig rather deeply into the history of the vehicles past safety
inspections (should be done monthly) along with their service and
maintenance records.

I ws think about this soem time agao so when you see the police
rushing about in vans and cars
do teh drivers check before speeding off, same with buses, I knew a
bus driver and he never instecte4d everything
before taking his bus out, but black cab drivers are responsible for
thier cabs.


So just out of curiosity, are the vehicles being checked daily by
the driver, with the weekly 'list' simply being used as a part of a
'training plan' for the apprentices?

It uis interesting point that as apprentices I don;t think they can be
resonsible legally.
We had that with a builder who let his apprentice forget tpo cover the
whole in teh roof with water
then it rained and the bathroonm cieling fell in. Shoudl teh
apprentice be blamed or teh roofer for not keeping a better check
on the work.

Tthe apprentice is not legally responsible if someone else drives a van with
bald tyres that the appentice has claimed to have checked. By law it's the
drivers job to check their own van before they use it. However the
apprentices often drive the vans. And they would quite happily drive them
with bald tyres and the low oil level light showing on the dashboard etc.

If an apprentice was to be caught with bald tyres the firm could produce the
report sheets to show who checked the vans. It stops them claiming the firm
was responsible for making them drive a faulty van.

If an electrician is caught with bald tyres then that is his problem. He
knows better.



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Adam