Sidevalve:
the maoster:
Our lot insist on 30 mins too. They know and accept that 15 is adequate but it’s their train set and they pay all breaks, so who am I to argue?There’s a bit of logic in it actually. One of the biggest mistakes drivers make when not doing many actual driving hours but are nevertheless on a long shift, is to overlook the sum total of WTD breaks required and inadvertantly end up going over 9 hours worked with only 15 minutes break. Easily done if you’re just hanging about.
There’s nothing wrong with working over 9 hours on only a 15, so long as you haven’t worked more than 6 hours at any point without a break and you have 45 in total of qualifying breaks before you finish
Work 6
Break 15
Work 6
Break 15
Work 2:14
Break 15
Work 1 minThat’s the extreme example of what you can do whilst single crewed
Our driver trainers advise same but the company don’t nag us if we don’t.