ROG:
The example showed two weekends in a row having reduced weekly rests which was the question by the OP -Banquo:
If you did work 2 consecutive weekends reduced rest would this show up as an infringement when your tacho is downloaded?So the answer could be that it would not show as an infringement
It could be, if other rest periods were involved. However I did not just give a yes/no answer. I qualified it by saying -
Yes, it will show as an infringement if you only have reduced rests in two consecutive weeks.
ROG:
If the question had been -
If you did work 2 consecutive weekends and both counted as reduced rest would this show up as an infringement
then the answer would be yes
The question asked is pretty much the same as yours, just with less words and asked how most drivers would ask it. It mentioned two reduced rests so it is pretty safe to assume he meant they are both reduced rests, he didn’t mention any other rest periods but just in case I covered that with the bit in red above.
ROG:
I know I’m not as good on this as your good self but I am sure that is correct unless you can point out any errors …
Yeah, you.
Everyone knows by now that you nurse a semi every time you get to point out the back to back weekly rest period thing and you introduce it at every possible opportunity, you did it today with reference to the upcoming Bank Holiday weekends, and you love to do it as it is something not everyone is aware of.
My answer to the question was it would be an infringement if the two weeks only had reduced rest periods, are you saying that answer was incorrect?
You then posted an example in which a two week period did not only have two reduced rest periods, it had two reduced and one full which more than meets the minimum requirements. You are trying to get one over on me because I said ‘in two consecutive weeks’ rather than counted in them. But, as a weekly rest period only needs one minute to fall in a week to be in it then your example with your back-to back rest periods has three rest periods in two consecutive weeks rather than two. The question posed by Banquo only mentioned two rest periods but I still added a caveat to my answer which meant it would only be the correct answer if they were indeed the only two rest periods in the two week period.
We had a multi page thread about ‘in’ and ‘counted in’ on a previous occasion so lets not have another. If a weekly rest period has one minute in a fixed week it can be counted for that week and is therefore in that week so when saying a rest period is in a week you know it is being counted for that week and the word counted is therefore surplus to requirements.