mucker85:
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These are PCV rules so I don’t know if they are the same as HGV.
Off the top of my head, the rule is exactly the same for HGV drivers, word for word.
The freight rules are exactly the same on this. Note the last sentence “A bunk or couchette must be available during the rest periods”. This means it cannot be used on Dover - Calais/Dunkirk.
whelmic:
The freight rules are exactly the same on this. Note the last sentence “A bunk or couchette must be available during the rest periods”. This means it cannot be used on Dover - Calais/Dunkirk.
If that worried stay in cab access to bunk then
gettin-on:
whelmic:
The freight rules are exactly the same on this. Note the last sentence “A bunk or couchette must be available during the rest periods”. This means it cannot be used on Dover - Calais/Dunkirk.If that worried stay in cab access to bunk then
Do not think that is allowed by the ferry operators for H&S
Not allowed but plenty do it
Esp on portsmouth crossings when its 4 to a cabin
gettin-on:
Not allowed but plenty do itEsp on portsmouth crossings when its 4 to a cabin
they sure do 
I slept in my cab on the Caen/Le Havre and Cherbourg ferry crossings.
You wait until nobody is looking and pull the split curtain over and jump in the cab bunk fast.
There is no way i am getting no sleep if shared a cabin on the ship with three complete strangers.
They will snore all night or tumble in at one am after the bar has shut and make a noise climbing up the ladder for the bunk beds.
The negatives of sleeping below locked decks , is that nobody knows you are there,if the ship is on fire or sinks.
Or an Adr gas/fume/acid or fume leak from a trailer.
It wasnt thT long back p&o out of portsmouth
We had to go down to bottom car deck then down again to drivers cabins on cherbourg boats this was well after the herald
Around 99/2001
They wernt worried about h&s then lol
gettin-on:
It wasnt thT long back p&o out of portsmouth
We had to go down to bottom car deck then down again to drivers cabins on cherbourg boats this was well after the herald
Around 99/2001They wernt worried about h&s then lol
and the Le Havre boats . the not so good old days 
Did have a passenger try stopping me going down one night
Had my meal went to go down to car decks tried to tell me h&s after herald your not allowed
Explained to him whete cabins were putsor came over
Yeah freight drivers sleep down there lol
And TBH the reasons for not staying in you cab on the dover ferries have diminished , ie food is really poor now,showers are worse than they used to be,and your surrounded by talibahn/flipflops, I would stay in the cab on that train too if i could get away with it, i always feel more tired after iv’e been on that thing for 50mins than i did before i got on it
I used a P&O ferry where the crew locked deck doors .
The drivers cabins were below sea level and close to the ship’s engines.
That spunds line the two that were on cherbourg route toby
Last time i used tbem would been around 2000-2001
Pride of Cherbourg and pride of Hampshire could usually get a tourist cabin on quiet xing sleeping in your cab on those longish crossing got rather hot and noisey with car alarms going off every couple of minutes