Compensating Rest Query

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Having a job trying to fathom this out:

Lets say you take 45h weekly rest (over the weekend).

[You also have 15h compensation to make up]

On Tuesday you start a reduced 9h daily rest. For whatever reason the daily rest goes on for longer into a 24 hour rest.

Now:

Has the driver had a reduced daily rest and made up the 15h compensation?

OR

Has he taken a 24h reduced weekly rest?

Now I realise the 45h rest could be added to this week or the previous week but lets assume there already is a weekly rest in the previous week.

Can the driver choose which of the two options is the most appropriate or is it called a weekly rest the moment you hit the 24 hours. Clearly if the weekend was a reduced weekly rest then the 24 hours would be interpreted as daily rest + compensation.

But as it was a full 45 hour rest the 24 hours could be seen as another weekly rest.

Does this have any implications in resetting the week?

Is there any strategy involved in drivers hours that it is worth being aware of just in case you shoot yourself in the foot and make things difficult.

Thanks.

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To some extent the driver can choose how he wishes to use the rest period.

For instance if he intends to work another 6 shifts he will need the 24 hours to count as a reduced weekly rest period, otherwise he could use it as a reduced daily rest period (if he has one available) + 15 hours compensation.

There is some flexibility involved in this and remember that compensation doesn’t have to be paid back until the end of the third week following the week in which the reduced weekly rest period was taken.

Very often circumstances will dictate how a 24 hour rest period is used, but as I said there is some flexibility to suit what the driver wants.

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Thanks tachograph. Would it be necessary to add some note as to what you intend to use it as or leave that for someone else to worry about?

4

ContainerBoy:
Thanks tachograph. Would it be necessary to add some note as to what you intend to use it as or leave that for someone else to worry about?

No need for notes, on occasions you may need to point out to the TM that the analysis software has screwed up though :wink: