Well I’ve only just realised this but after reading the EU guide No2 to (EC) 561/2006 it appears that there’s no reason to worry about it as the first 45 minutes of POA will still count as break.
Although GV262 mentions multi-manning for this situation the EU guide doesn’t so I would assume that the first 45 minutes of POA would count as break regardless of whether or not the drivers could take advantage of the other multi-manning concesions.
The third is where a vehicle is manned by more than one driver. When a second crew member is available for driving when necessary, is sitting next to the driver of the vehicle and is not actively involved in assisting the driver driving the vehicle, a period of 45 minutes of that crew member’s ‘period of availability’ can be regarded as ‘break’.
i would say it depends on when the 2nd driver drove and how long, just cos there card is in slot 2 does not mean there on break cos why would there, there as not drove yet. the first part of there shift is POA and no part of that POA can be used as break
Wheel Nut:
According to the legislation the scenario at the top of the page cannot happen due to this snippet within the multimanning rules.
For the first hour of multi-manning the
presence of another driver or drivers is optional but for
the remainder of the period it is compulsory;
The term Double Manning no longer exists as you may have 3 drivers available for driving.
In the scenario ROG has given the first driver would be multi-manning to the definition given in (EC) 561/2006 but the second driver wouldn’t.
I think that’s what ROG meant in the title
Correct - I had to think about the wording carefully
I was under the IMPRESSION from the way it was worded that POA would only automatically count as break if under multi manning rules and in the senario driver 2 would be deemed as not to have any breaks but if the first 45 of POA is counted as break if the card is in slot 2 of the digi no matter what then that would sort out the problem
