Drempels:
Shandy123:
madmackem:
Unless CO overrides the eat sleep card. Also reservist drivers who are also civvy drivers can work as a HGV driver all week, drive an SV all weekend, then dive his civvy vehicle all week. I think.
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If memory serves me right, it has got to the Brigade commander who authorises suspension of the card. I remember when the war fighting stopped in Iraq (2003), we had to revert to the eat sleep cards. Was a bloody joke.
Hmm. Interesting. Maybe its de jure the CO, him having the powers of a magistrate, etc… But in practice, it requires a one star, for arrse-covering reasons.
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I never knew that, about CO/Magistrate powers. Do other ranks have other powers too?
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Only the commando qualified ones, and that’s not really them that have “powers” it’s the green beret.
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TruckDriverBen:
Yes OP they are regulated by tacho rules, so if there at the battlefield once it hits 9hours its game and they have to park up regardless of rocket launchers getting shot at them.
Twenty years ago, I’d have raised a smile at that. Now I’m inclined to find out if it’s actually true.
Can you actually have a rocket launcher shot at you ?
madmackem:
raymundo:
Wheel Nut:
I’m only guessing but doubt the ministry have any jurisdiction, it’s not like they are competing in hire and reward markets.
Oh yes they are, they are competing with the Yanks, French & British, Saudi etc etc to start illegal wars all over the world …
Politicians start wars.
Soldiers finish them.
■■■■!
Meant as a collective !!
W anchor …
If they are hauled by miltary persons then no. When i was in no such thing as regulations. Remember driving the scammel for 15 hours straight when taking vhallengers down to ship out for deployment.
Good days. Convoys galore.
madmackem:
Politicians start wars.
Soldiers finish them.
■■■■!
Aren’t most conflicts resolved at the negotiating table?
The military play an important part of course, but if they merely suppress an irate opposition the conflict is on hold, not finished.
Richard!
Edit. Typo
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lee.martin68:
If the fleet is owned and operated by the MOD then Soldiers, Sailors and Airman do not require a tachograph or equivalent. What there do have is a log book, referred to as an “eat, sleep card” by the Army, which falls in line with EU and AETR rules on drivers’ hours.
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westermant:
Once a year you’re given a load of logbooks to fill out and you spend the day making [zb] up. I was never pulled by vosa but when I was based in Germany I was pulled by their transport police and at the port in France when driving back to uk.
All true to my knowledge, keeping in mind I left the forces some 10years ago give or take!
Drempels:
I never knew that, about CO/Magistrate powers. Do other ranks have other powers too?
As a military police corporal, I had the powers of a Provost Marshal (brigadier) that enabled me to arrest ranks far higher than my own. 
Drempels:
TruckDriverBen:
Yes OP they are regulated by tacho rules, so if there at the battlefield once it hits 9hours its game and they have to park up regardless of rocket launchers getting shot at them.
Twenty years ago, I’d have raised a smile at that. Now I’m inclined to find out if it’s actually true.
I’m sure some pointy shoe elfin safety consultant will have suggested it. After all, they got the individual seats with 4point harness for all occupants through. …