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Chain Of Responsibility Warning

New South Wales Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) and a noted legal expert have emphasised the Chain Of Responsibility (COR) risks consigners and others face, after a recent NSW Local Court case cost a waste-management company just shy of $1 million.

The consignor firm, Remondis Australia, was fined $732,206 and paid $250,000 in legal costs for allowing overloaded vehicles of its contracted trucking firm to carry its mulch between September 2013 and October 2014.

See full story at https://www.ownerdriver.com.au/industry-news/1708/remondis-sentence-seen-as-significant-cor-step