Help me explain - drivers hours question

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Jenson Button:
Please bare with me… I really need to understand this.

The driver starts at midnight and works till 5am - then takes a 9 hour break, he then starts at 1400 hours and works till 2am - this has used up 1 period of 24 hours - but he has had a 9 hour break between 5am and 1400 hours. 1 of his reducers for the week. He is now in his 2nd period of 24 hours - what does he need to do now - or did his 2nd period of 24 hours start when he commenced work for the 2nd time at 1400 hours?

I really am sorry about this but I am struggling to get my head round it

Start thinking of a 24hr as a maximal working day, not as a period, a driver after driving 4 hrs does not have to take a 20hr break to get the 24hr day full

I could drive 1hr and then do a 9hr daily break equaling 10hrs . i have then done a daily rest WITHIN a 24hr max working day after the 10hrs i start a new 24hr maximal working day

Geoff

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dessy:

green456:

switchlogic:

Harry Monk:
And yes, if he started at midnight, stopped at 5.a.m. and then started again, then at the end of that new shift he would have completed two of the six cards available to him before needing to take a weekly rest period.

So it took you 25 years to understand the tacho regs but you still talk about him using ‘2 of the 6 cards available to him’. No wonder new drivers get confused. Don’t talk about six cards, its confusing. Its six days, as many ‘cards’ as you can legally fit in.

No its not, its six 24 hr periods which may cover seven days :smiley:

24 hours short of a week! :grimacing:

That covers it, there are 168 hours in a week. if you take Dessys 24 hours away it leaves you with the magical 144 hours :laughing: