help needed again people please.
gone from the odd night out to tramping which im enjoying-pays well and im newly single but think im zebbing up me hours. i know i can reduce my daily rest to 9 hours 3 times a week but im doing these in a block of three and another driver told me you had to have 11 hours rest between each 9 . looked at the vosa website but im a lorry driver for zebs sake and have splinters now ( head scratching)
cheers in advance for the forthcoming answears
Your mate is talking through his backside!
44 Tonne Ton:
Your mate is talking through his backside!
Yes I second that.
as 44 said mate talking out his ■■■, you can do all your reduced back to back, infact you can do 5 back to back so long as you had a 3 hr break during the day on 2 of them 
I know this is over-simplifying it a bit but…
You can work three 15 hour days a week, and have to have 9 hours off afterwards.
For the other days you can only work 13 hour days and have to have 11 hours off afterwards.
Not the perfect answer, but the best you are likely to get for the time being!
bald bloke:
44 Tonne Ton:
Your mate is talking through his backside!Yes I second that.
I’ll third it.
The reason you got splinters is that you were looking for something that isn’t there.
If it isn’t there, the MMTM rule is false.
I’m not going to link you to the rule in question, I’ll just paraphrase it.
You should take 11 hours rest per day, which can be reduced to 9 hours 3 times per week.
I’ve emphasised the full stop, because there are no other rules or provisos attached to this rule. You’ve already looked at the rules, you could take another look to confirm if you like, be careful not to get any more splinters though 
i was sure i was right cheers for the confirmation you lot. i shall now trim on
Fella, you did the right thing by getting independant advice on TNUK rather than listening to a workmate who might be following his own befuddled agenda.
Just think of the splinters your colleague must have…
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Simon:
You should take 11 hours rest per day, which can be reduced to 9 hours 3 times per week.
But the rule doesn’t say you can reduce daily rest three times per week … it says three times between any two weekly rest periods Which is actually a completely different thing
Dare I suggest the OP looks for a DCPC course for a quick refresher on the rules 
And sends his mate 
Sorry … couldn’t help myself
shep532:
Simon:
You should take 11 hours rest per day, which can be reduced to 9 hours 3 times per week.But the rule doesn’t say you can reduce daily rest three times per week … it says three times between any two weekly rest periods
Dare I suggest the OP looks for a DCPC course for a quick refresher on the rules
And sends his mate
Sorry … couldn’t help myself
And so you should be 
You’re right about the 3 allowed reduced daily rest periods being between weekly rest periods though.
Dare I suggest the OP gets his mate to come here and we’ll educate him for nothing 
Having said that, if he hasn’t yet done the training he could do a DCPC course on the regulations.
Then come here to check that he hasn’t been taught a load of nonsense
tachograph:
Dare I suggest the OP gets his mate to come here and we’ll educate him for nothingHaving said that, if he hasn’t yet done the training he could do a DCPC course on the regulations.
Then come here to check that he hasn’t been taught a load of nonsense
The problem is … at the moment the DCPC scheme appears to be the same as using Trucknet. For every correct and good piece of advice given - there are 3 or 4 incorrect pieces of advice given. This thread is a classic example and the correct answer just might never have got posted.
Although it is easy to have a go at DCPC trainers - I know I do - it is only the same sort of thing. For every 2 or 3 ‘wrong-uns’ there is a ‘right-un’. And of course the problem is the driver thinks what he has been told is correct even though it may not be.
But even the authorities get it wrong. A senior VOSA man told me a driver cannot record a break if the vehicle is being loaded or unloaded - EVEN if the driver was sat in the canteen. When I asked why he told me because the vehicle was still working. Our conversation was abruptly ended when he put the phone down after realising what an arse he had just made of himself.
I don’t have the answer to the problem … maybe attend a DCPC course then come on here, slag the trainer off laughing about what he told you - then someone can confirm if he was right or not. Then name and shame the trainer/company if he was wrong and we can stop using the 2 or 3 ‘wrong-uns’. But find one who gets it right … recommend them to anyone interested