Following on from another thread, I just want to post a question and see what type of answers I get. I have a number in mind myself, and it would be interesting to see who agrees. I will say if anybody does.
What is the maximum number of consecutive calendar days that you could drive a truck which is subject to eu hours rules, legally and single-manned?
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Harry Monk:
What is the maximum number of consecutive calendar days that you could drive a truck which is subject to eu hours rules, legally and single-manned?
Infinite
Start sun 2200
Finish sat 0100
45 hour break every week doing that
That is working on 7 calendar days every week
Assuming that 6 days has to be followed by at least 24 hours rest there’s no way of getting past 6 actual days. 
Carryfast:
Assuming that 6 days has to be followed by at least 24 hours rest there’s no way of getting past 6 actual days.
Please define the word DAY
ROG:
Carryfast:
Assuming that 6 days has to be followed by at least 24 hours rest there’s no way of getting past 6 actual days.Please define the word DAY
I’m guessing the usual definition 24 hours.Which seems to be how the wording of the regs is intended to be interpreted too.IE 6 ‘days’ followed by at least a 24 hour break.The idea of using calender date lines is a red herring which understandably might cause confusion.If you work nights you soon learn to just ignore the dates.It’s the 24 hour periods that are counted as days in all cases.
six 24 h periods which adds up to 144 hours which is 6 calendar days
Romski:
six 24 h periods which adds up to 144 hours which is 6 calendar days
but you can run in on the seventh day! Then 24 hours off plus 144 hours = 168 hours = ONE WHOLE WEEK 
Romski:
six 24 h periods which adds up to 144 hours which is 6 calendar days
Obviously it is 7 calendar days as 144 h can go across 7 calendar days.
Never heard about 168 h week
Fatboy slimslow:
Romski:
six 24 h periods which adds up to 144 hours which is 6 calendar daysbut you can run in on the seventh day! Then 24 hours off plus 144 hours = 168 hours = ONE WHOLE WEEK
How can you work on day 7 after 6 consecutive 24 hour periods from when you started while you’re supposed to be on at least 24 hours off.IE 6 days + 24 hours off. The calender dates are just a red herring.
Of all the topics too put on here
Ours thinks it’s 6 days,5days/ 6 days maximum ,with 45 off ,24 off,if they got wind( read it on here) they could run us 10/13/ 39 days in a row ,zb me they’d be doing it.
Like the planner said ,if I had my way I’d run you 24/7 but I’m not allowed too.
This thread shouldbe took off here before some planner/ boss reads it 
144 hours is not 6 days but is 6 lots of 24 hours
There is no rule which states that each of those 24 hours is the time from 0000 to 2400 hours
Starting Monday noon and finishing at noon the following sunday is 144 hours or 6 x 24 hour periods - that covers 7 calendar days
This is why the regs do not use the word day but work in hours so that those working weird shifts have the same rules
12 from a fortnight out tramping. One short weekly rest taken at remote location, the 45 rest taken back home.
I count being “away from home” as being “at work” remember, so from my point of view a 6-5 fortnight with a remote weekly reduced rest is to me, the same as 11 days working on the spin, and 1 day “not at home”, making the 12 days in a row I’m “not at home”.
I won’t be taking on such a “shift pattern” until it’s hourly paid.
Even at minimum wage, 12 days x 24 hours x £6.50ph works out at £986 a week, which I reckon is about right for losing 2 weeks of your life at a time.
This, of course, is why foreign imports get brought in by foreign drivers, and we don’t get a look in. Why pay one of us decent money when you can get some roving european without a life to come over here for E200 a week, dodge our taxes and fines, and job-block us all whilst they’re at it?
Leave the EU, and we can kick this “make GB into a third world country” into touch. A protectionist policy of huge tariffs on unfair price undercutting by the rest of Europe coming over here would then allow us to do all our own work with home-grown workers. I don’t believe Cleggy for a minute when he says “millions of jobs depend upon us staying in the EU” - since even if the “millions” is not an exageration - The jobs in question have got to nearly all be remote jobs for foreigners coming over here.
Our jobs involving the EU? Loads of Customs/Police/Emergency jobs already crushed out of existence. Then there’s a few jobs created for things like “Human Rights Compliance Officers” as advertised in the Guardian which is supposed to represent “the upside” of this argument. Big deal! 
ROG:
Harry Monk:
What is the maximum number of consecutive calendar days that you could drive a truck which is subject to eu hours rules, legally and single-manned?Infinite
Start sun 2200
Finish sat 0100
45 hour break every week doing thatThat is working on 7 calendar days every week
I was wrong this is correct. Now Harry did you write your answer on bit of paper to be held by some one we trust?
So am I right in thinking I could start my tramping week at 05:00 Monday morning work all week and run in Sat morning around 11am as long as I get 45 hours rest I could do this every week■■?
Scania1976:
So am I right in thinking I could start my tramping week at 05:00 Monday morning work all week and run in Sat morning around 11am as long as I get 45 hours rest I could do this every week■■?
run in sat at 8am with start on mon at 5am = 45 hours = ok every week
ROG:
Scania1976:
So am I right in thinking I could start my tramping week at 05:00 Monday morning work all week and run in Sat morning around 11am as long as I get 45 hours rest I could do this every week■■?run in sat at 8am with start on mon at 5am = 45 hours = ok every week
Thanks very much
The maximum number of days I can work is 5. No need for anymore than that…