Roymondo:
robroy:
truckyboy:
…but did say that HGV drivers are restricted to only working for 56 hours a week…strange that when the average worked is between 60 - 80…let alone sticking to the 48 average.That’s my point about all this crap.
A complete cluster [zb] of drivers hours rules, running along side, and combined with, yet another set of rules that are not entirely genuine, but only there to display a good but false impression of the job, with drivers jumping through hoops trying to comply with it all.
Brilliant eh? You couldn’t make it up.
Why not just simplify the whole [zb] shambles.
The whole point of the WTD was to protect the workers’ entitlement to adequate rest etc. It really isn’t about making drivers jump through hoops to comply with it, it’s about getting employers to toe the line. That’s probably the main reason DVSA are not interested in penalising drivers for WTD infringements.
Ok fair enough, but until our hours actually are genuinely cut down from a permitted ridiculous and legal 70+ per week, to a sensible level (around that 48ish mark) I’ll continue just not to take it seriously and treat it with the contempt it deserves. 