Vehicle checks should take over an hour!

It’s all covered by the road traffic act in that generally the onus will be on the driver to prove that anything failing, or falling off, or falling apart, on the vehicle couldn’t have been noticed by and/or isn’t the responsibility of the driver.
It’s a can of worms and obviously the more effort that the driver can put into pre/post trip checks the better defence that provides.
Oh wait if you increase the dligence of the checks then that becomes the expected norm reducing the level of defence regarding what is and what isn’t defined as should be ‘noticeable’.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Basically the fate of the driver’s safety and/or staying on the right side of the law can be in the hands of the employer’s maintenance regime and staff.
The odds are if the thing isn’t replaced and maintained regularly on a no expense spared basis, then sooner or later something will break that the law will try to say should have been noticed by the driver.Then it’s all up to the jury whether or not you go to jail. :bulb: