I have not driven for around a fortnight now, but will be doing a job next week that involves two weeks away, but with an odd working pattern for the first 8-9 days. I don’t normally do nights out much, except now and again for a friends company.
My question is this: If I work say, one or two driving shifts (that may only constitute 5 hours work before I take an 11 hr daily rest) then take a 24 hr rest after two shifts, do I then need to take a 45 hour weekly rest after the next 6 shifts■■?
I.e 2 x shifts, then 24 hr break, then 6 x shifts (with 11 hrs daily in between each) then a 45 hr break. I cannot take another 24 hrs after the 6th shift I am assuming.
I have not driven for around a fortnight now, but will be doing a job next week that involves two weeks away, but with an odd working pattern for the first 8-9 days. I don’t normally do nights out much, except now and again for a friends company.
My question is this: If I work say, one or two driving shifts (that may only constitute 5 hours work before I take an 11 hr daily rest) then take a 24 hr rest after two shifts, do I then need to take a 45 hour weekly rest after the next 6 shifts■■?
I.e 2 x shifts, then 24 hr break, then 6 x shifts (with 11 hrs daily in between each) then a 45 hr break. I cannot take another 24 hrs after the 6th shift I am assuming.
Thanks in advance people!
Does the job next week start after this coming sunday midnight ? (3rd/4th march)
If it does then, as no EU regs driving was done this week, you will already have a full weekly rest for the week 4th to 10th march
Again, if it does, then the next FULL weekly rest will need to be STARTED by 2359 on 24th march
This info is crucial because it will determine what type of weekly rest you can take at any point
The job will start next Tuesday evening around 8pm. Drive 3-4 hrs, then 11 hrs off. Then a 10 hr shift, then 24 hrs off. Then 6 shifts. So in light of that I can take a 24hr break on the 6/7th March.
I have not driven for around a fortnight now, but will be doing a job next week that involves two weeks away, but with an odd working pattern for the first 8-9 days. I don’t normally do nights out much, except now and again for a friends company.
My question is this: If I work say, one or two driving shifts (that may only constitute 5 hours work before I take an 11 hr daily rest) then take a 24 hr rest after two shifts, do I then need to take a 45 hour weekly rest after the next 6 shifts■■?
I.e 2 x shifts, then 24 hr break, then 6 x shifts (with 11 hrs daily in between each) then a 45 hr break. I cannot take another 24 hrs after the 6th shift I am assuming.
Thanks in advance people!
It would depend on what days you worked and what days you had the weekly or reduced weekly rest periods, there’s nothing to stop you having two consecutive 24 hour reduced weekly rest periods, but you must have a regular (45 hour) weekly rest period that can count for at-least every second week.
Suppose you worked Sunday and Monday then had Tuesday off (24 hour rest), you then worked Wednesday though to Monday (6 shifts) before having another 24 hour reduced weekly rest period, that would be legal but you would need to start a regular (45 hour) weekly rest period before midnight on the following Sunday so that it could count for the second week.
A weekly rest period that crosses over two weeks (Sunday / Monday) can count for either week but not both, so as long as you start a weekly rest period before midnight Sunday it can count for either week.
The regulations say that in any two consecutive weeks you must have either two regular weekly rest periods or at-least one regular and one reduced weekly rest period.
So you must have at-least a reduced weekly rest period every week and you must have a regular 45 hour weekly rest period at-least every second week.
sdg1970:
The job will start next Tuesday evening around 8pm. Drive 3-4 hrs, then 11 hrs off. Then a 10 hr shift, then 24 hrs off. Then 6 shifts. So in light of that I can take a 24hr shift on the 6/7th March.
That would be perfectly legal as long as you don’t start work before Monday morning, enjoy your trip
sdg1970:
The job will start next Tuesday evening around 8pm. Drive 3-4 hrs, then 11 hrs off. Then a 10 hr shift, then 24 hrs off. Then 6 shifts. So in light of that I can take a 24hr shift on the 6/7th March.
You WILL have a FULL weekly rest for the week 4th to 10th march and providing you start the next FULL weekly rest by 2359 on 24th march then you can take reduced weekly rests so as not too go over the 144 hours (6 days) rule
Would one of these driver hour gaurd things keep me on top of the job or not? I can see me up before the TC in short shift, and looking at the tacho questions on here im not alone I always thought i was bright until i started reading some of the tacho questions and replys on here, seems they have made it all a case of entrapment with all the variations of driving/rest periods.
If you want to visualize how the next couple of weeks will pan out for you on this job you start tonight I’ve entered the details you supplied into the driving hours calculator at www.drivinghours.com
Duty details were entered into the worksheet - “Enter work details here” (to make it easier to input and view, you may want to remove the frozen rows - View → Freeze Rows → No Frozen Rows)
Report was viewed on the “Weekly Report” tab
Although there are 8 consecutive entries, it does show the reduced weekly rest period of 24 hours before you start the 6 shifts starting on Thursday Night
Feel free to make whatever changes you want to the “Enter details here” sheet so you can then have a look at the report to see if they make any impact on the rules, it should let you go through those “what if” scenarios.
I always thought i was bright until i started reading some of the tacho questions and replys on here, seems they have made it all a case of entrapment with all the variations of driving/rest periods.