I’ve notice that the current transport company that I’m working for are failing to keep their tractor units within their service intervals.
As a driver what does this mean for me and where do I stand under the law.
bald bloke:
But what happens if you knowingly take it out on the road with an out of date service schedule ?
Sorry I assumed the OP was referring to the six weekly inspections.
As far as service schedules are concerned I would say that unless the driver knows something to be wrong with the vehicle it’s still the operators responsibility.,
MOSSSIDEDEEP:
…it comes up service schedule due 16/12/16.
Could be that the garage didnt reset it or couldn’t, or that is the rather conservative service intervals manufacturers like to put on cars, vans, trucks etc. in a vein attempt to get people to service it at the main dealer. Wouldnt worry, pretty sure I driven stuff that not been serviced in years rather than a month.
Theres mostly very long service intervals with heavy trucks now with long life synthetic oil technology, i still prefer to halve the intervals for oils and filters though, a bit old school i know but cant help thinking some intervals are just too long at 60-100K km’s…
Company problem,who knows if a vehicle has been serviced or not,it may or may not have been serviced whilst the driver was off or done overnight when he was home in bed ,and put back where he left it