Wilk:
So, it seems that this 24-hour rule is quite important one. No matter if I had 12 hours rest between Saturday and Sunday. Do you think that DVSA will take this seriously into account in case of roadside check even I had such break between two shifts? 
Doesn’t matter if you had a whole week of rest after that Saturday shift, 168 hours it would still be a reduced daily rest because your shift was over 13 hours. As soon as you go over 13 hoyrs, even by just 1 minute it’s a reduced daily rest.
I’m not being funny but are you actually reading the many replies to your questions on this thread? Tachograph, ROG and myself have mentioned this point several times and in my last post I pointed out that I knew you were going to get an infringement for too many reduced daily rest periods in a week because of this and the last shift of your week. You got the infringement, it was explained how you got it and I queried then if you were reading the information given to you. You replied to my post so you obviously at least skimmed it.
Again I was at least 90% certain you would be back with the same type of infringement because it was clear from your replies you just were not getting it.
As a sideline to my main work I also check driver’s hours compliance for a company, a mixture of EU and domestic working and I have to explain the rules to some drivers. I know the ones I will be explaining the same thing to again because they aren’t getting it and I got that feeling from you.
It’s really not difficult to grasp, there are only two things you need to consider.
Before you start a shift the question is, how many hours since I finished my last shift? The answer is less than 11 then it’s a reduced daily rest.
At the end of your shift the question is, how long was my shift? If the answer is more than 13 then it’s a reduced rest. That is fact regardless of how many hours you actually rest for because 13 hours and 1 minute subtracted from 24 hours leaves less than 11 hours.
You asked about a roadside check and yes they will take it seriously if you are unlucky enough to be stopped, it’s basic stuff this and you are looking at a fine for insufficient daily rest. That would be for the rest period after the Monday shift, it was your fourth one and the penalty for this is on a sliding scale depending on how short you were on the rest period. You were 2 hours short, you had 9 and required 11, and the penalty for 2 or more hours short is £300. If you in fact had a little over 9 hours rest as your shift wasn’t quite 15 hours and you had a few minutes more than 9 it would be a £200 penalty for between 1 and 2 hours short.
