ACME Companion not running at startup

[SyphonxZA]

I am using nginx-proxy and nginx-proxy-acme (along with other services). All services run at startup except for nginx-proxy-acme. To get it running I need to manually run docker compose up on my server (Debian 11). It then runs fine and renews my certs, however 3 months later it becomes an issue again as the certs expire because the service never runs.

Is this the default behaviour? I can't find anything in the docs to explain why it does not run at startup.

Below is my compose file:

 version: "2.4"
 
services:
  nginx-proxy:
    image: nginxproxy/nginx-proxy
    container_name: nginx-proxy
    environment:
    - PUID=${PUID}
    - PGID=${PGID}
    - TZ=${TZ}
    volumes:
    - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/vhost.d:/etc/nginx/vhost.d
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/html:/usr/share/nginx/html
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d
    ports:
    - 80:80
    - 443:443
    restart: always
  nginx-acme:
    image: nginxproxy/acme-companion
    container_name: nginx-proxy-acme
    environment:
    - PUID=${PUID}
    - PGID=${PGID}
    - TZ=${TZ}
    - DEFAULT_EMAIL=${EMAIL}
    volumes_from:
    - nginx-proxy
    volumes:
    - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:rw
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/vhost.d:/etc/nginx/vhost.d
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/html:/usr/share/nginx/html
    - ${USER_DIR}/.docker/nginx/acme:/etc/acme.sh
    restart: always

Container logs once manually started:

docker-compose logs nginx-acme
Attaching to nginx-proxy-acme
nginx-proxy-acme | Info: running acme-companion version v2.2.1
nginx-proxy-acme | Info: A custom dhparam.pem file was provided. Best practice is to use standardized RFC7919 Diffie-Hellman groups instead.
nginx-proxy-acme | Reloading nginx proxy (c03764d10903e7de5783d79a37fe9ba6be728fe3c60499bf2e5aa3c54ed16853)...
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 10:50:26 Generated '/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf' from 16 containers
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 10:50:26 [notice] 66#66: signal process started
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:27 Generated '/app/letsencrypt_service_data' from 16 containers
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:27 Running '/app/signal_le_service'
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:27 Watching docker events
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:28 Contents of /app/letsencrypt_service_data did not change. Skipping notification '/app/signal_le_service'
nginx-proxy-acme | Reloading nginx proxy (c03764d10903e7de5783d79a37fe9ba6be728fe3c60499bf2e5aa3c54ed16853)...
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 10:50:34 Generated '/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf' from 16 containers
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 10:50:34 [notice] 93#93: signal process started
nginx-proxy-acme | Creating/renewal deluge.streamz.co.za certificates... (example.com)
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:35 Received event die for container 76d7ef0afd07
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:36 Received event stop for container 76d7ef0afd07
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:36 UTC 2022] Using CA: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:37 UTC 2022] Creating domain key
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:38 Received event start for container 4ab677ebd9c0
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:42 UTC 2022] The domain key is here: /etc/acme.sh/[email protected]/example.com/example.com.key
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:42 UTC 2022] Single domain='example.com'
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:42 UTC 2022] Getting domain auth token for each domain
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:43 Debounce minTimer fired
nginx-proxy-acme | 2022/09/13 08:50:44 Contents of /app/letsencrypt_service_data did not change. Skipping notification '/app/signal_le_service'
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:47 UTC 2022] Getting webroot for domain='example.com'
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:47 UTC 2022] Verifying: example.com
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:52 UTC 2022] Success
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:52 UTC 2022] Verify finished, start to sign.
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:52 UTC 2022] Lets finalize the order.
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:52 UTC 2022] Le_OrderFinalize='https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/finalize/124991341/125647874517'
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:54 UTC 2022] Downloading cert.
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:54 UTC 2022] Le_LinkCert='https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/cert/033d14714941b646bb17f5a94678b7269825'
nginx-proxy-acme | [Tue Sep 13 08:50:55 UTC 2022] Cert success.