Exemption from tacho hours

ASK THE EXPERTS SAFETY, LAW AND WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE FORUM (INTE
1

I work for a massive national company we have a driver who drives a transit with trailer therefore under tacho rules

He is also a retained firefighter

The other week he did a 9 hour day finished at 5pm then had fire callout till 5am
He came to work did another 9 hour day driving so approx 26 hours without anything other than lunch hour he was like zombie all day but still sent out to drive which I felt was dangerous so I bought it up with manager and transport dept who say he is exempt from WTD ?

I can understand being exempt for a normal worker but surely once he tows trailer he is under euro tacho hours still

2

He’s exempt from both EU and domestic regulations while on fire-fighting duty, but not when he’s driving for your company, so I would have thought he should be having a daily rest period before resuming his driving job.

3

A firefighter who goes out to crashes where possibly someone was to tired to drive chooses to do that !! - is he STUPID?

Scrub that last bit … HE IS STUPID

4

ROG:
A firefighter who goes out to crashes where possibly someone was to tired to drive chooses to do that !! - is he STUPID?

Scrub that last bit … HE IS STUPID

Agreed, and the next emergency could see his fire-service mates cutting him out of a smashed vehicle if he falls asleep at the wheel :frowning:

5

Use to drive in the ta. The boss wouldn’t let us drive unless we had 8 hours at home and that was driving vans

6

What time was his callout? firefighters will get relief crews sent to an operational incident within a 5-6 hour window maximum.