The work is highway surface clearance and resurfacing of a major road for tipper lorries, 2 driver shifts per lorry per day for 3 weeks which is scheduled for later this year.
It is essential highway maintenance.
Because it is scheduled work what set of driver hours rules can be used EU with digicard or Domestic using driver hours book records?
If the vehicle is based at the sire where the road maintenance is taking place the whole shift will be done of UK domestic regulations.
However, any journey of any significance to or from the site where the vehicle will be used for road maintenance will be in-scope of EU regulations.
EU Regulations Exemptions and derogations
Vehicles used in connection with road maintenance services which:
are engaged on a journey directly relating to the maintenance services, for
example, removing rubble or other materials orare being used directly on the maintenance activity, for example, laying tarmac
These will fall within this derogation however journeys to a site for the purpose of
positioning the vehicle in readiness for engaging in the maintenance activity or for
returning to base after the maintenance activity has ended will not fall within this derogation.Vehicles which are to be used or have been used that same day in connection with highway
maintenance and control and don’t travel far from the site where the work of highway
maintenance is being carried out will fall within the derogation.