I am working for an agency with a permanent contract to a supermarket who require drivers 7 days a week. Can I legally work a continuous 6 days on, 2 days off shift pattern. I just can’t get my head around whether or not this is possible. 
DennisTheDinosaur:
I am working for an agency with a permanent contract to a supermarket who require drivers 7 days a week. Can I legally work a continuous 6 days on, 2 days off shift pattern. I just can’t get my head around whether or not this is possible.
OK for so long but sooner or later you get to a point where a fixed week has no weekly rest which can be used for it
Member tachograph did a great post with how this works somewhere on this site 
ROG:
DennisTheDinosaur:
I am working for an agency with a permanent contract to a supermarket who require drivers 7 days a week. Can I legally work a continuous 6 days on, 2 days off shift pattern. I just can’t get my head around whether or not this is possible.OK for so long but sooner or later you get to a point where a fixed week has no weekly rest which can be used for it
Member tachograph did a great post with how this works somewhere on this site
you’ll end up at some point if your on fixed hours that you’ll need a 3 day weekly rest I think its around week 8
I’m not on particularly fixed hours. I just get a text with a start time. I then work, on average, 11 hours.
What I’m trying to do is to earn as much as is possible (obviously) and at the same time make it simple for the agency to understand my availability, I.m currently trying to work 5 on, 2 off followed by 6 on 1 off (if you see what I mean) but it just seems to confuse them to the point that I keep losing out on shifts. So I thought 6 on, 2 off might make it simpler for them.
By fixed hours I think he meant fixed days such as doing a shift every day for X days then having X off
ROG:
By fixed hours I think he meant fixed days such as doing a shift every day for X days then having X off
yeah I got that Rog 
nick2008:
ROG:
By fixed hours I think he meant fixed days such as doing a shift every day for X days then having X offyeah I got that Rog
That was aimed at the OP
Are you sure that the agency are getting confused rather than not wanting to spend more time than necessary organising your shifts ?
I feel that the agency aren’t really interested so long as the slots are filled. So I’m trying to simplify my existence to them by just saying “I’ll work for 6 days and then take 2 days off”. Maybe then I won’t get mysteriously dropped from the roster.
It’s very frustrating because the money is good and the Supermarket chain staff that I deal with are brill. I just don’t seem to be able to make the agency understand that I need to work.
6 on 1 off then 5 on 2 off is a common shift pattern for many drivers so I fail to see how that is difficult for any agency or employer to deal with