"Baker said he struggled to find many positives in the case: “There is no evidence to show that the compliance levels have been at the standard required since the licence was granted,” he added. “I invited Mrs Bell to identify a time when compliance had been up to standard and she struggled to do so. I conclude that the seriousness level in this case is serious to severe.”
It’s bad when the traffic commissioner asks the transport manager to demonstrate a single time the company was actually in compliance of drivers hours, WTD, drivers running tachos properly and maintaining vehicles properly and they can’t find a single one.
And for those who say the WTD doesn’t matter, continual breaches were one of the reasons for the O licence being revoked.
"Baker said he struggled to find many positives in the case: “There is no evidence to show that the compliance levels have been at the standard required since the licence was granted,” he added. “I invited Mrs Bell to identify a time when compliance had been up to standard and she struggled to do so. I conclude that the seriousness level in this case is serious to severe.”
It’s bad when the traffic commissioner asks the transport manager to demonstrate a single time the company was actually in compliance of drivers hours, WTD, drivers running tachos properly and maintaining vehicles properly and they can’t find a single one.
And for those who say the WTD doesn’t matter, continual breaches were one of the reasons for the O licence being revoked.
It mentions nothing about the WTD in the article. The “working time” they refer to will be tacho working time.
DCPCFML:
It mentions nothing about the WTD in the article. The “working time” they refer to will be tacho working time.
No it’ll be WTD. If there’s been a breach of exceeding duty time that results in a charge of insufficient daily or weekly rest because there’s actually no maximum working time specified in the legislation, only daily and weekly rest periods.
DCPCFML:
It mentions nothing about the WTD in the article. The “working time” they refer to will be tacho working time.
No it’ll be WTD. If there’s been a breach of exceeding duty time that results in a charge of insufficient daily or weekly rest because there’s actually no maximum working time specified in the legislation, only daily and weekly rest periods.
The TC doesn’t care about WTD. It’s not their jurisdiction and they have no enforcement powers over it.
Conor:
"Baker said he struggled to find many positives in the case: “There is no evidence to show that the compliance levels have been at the standard required since the licence was granted,” he added. “I invited Mrs Bell to identify a time when compliance had been up to standard
Pity they did not appeal to his boss, then the report would have been interesting “Bell asked Bell”
DCPCFML:
The TC doesn’t care about WTD. It’s not their jurisdiction and they have no enforcement powers over it.
It is indirectly because by not adhering to legislation that covers you you’re not operating in good repute. It’s another example of them not complying with laws and regulations they have to abide by, something which they agreed to do when they applied for their O licence.
Just because you think the WTD is a waste of time and they shouldn’t bother with it because you have no friends, family, hobbies or life outside of the cab so are happy to work every waking hour doesn’t mean the rest of us are.
Conor:
No it’ll be WTD. If there’s been a breach of exceeding duty time that results in a charge of insufficient daily or weekly rest because there’s actually no maximum working time specified in the legislation, only daily and weekly rest periods.
No max working hours apart from 56hrs a week or 90 a fortnight you mean. And then of course, if you must have 9hrs rest in 24hrs it also means no more than15hrs work.
Conor:
No it’ll be WTD. If there’s been a breach of exceeding duty time that results in a charge of insufficient daily or weekly rest because there’s actually no maximum working time specified in the legislation, only daily and weekly rest periods.
No max working hours apart from 56hrs a week or 90 a fortnight you mean. And then of course, if you must have 9hrs rest in 24hrs it also means no more than15hrs work.
There is a difference between ‘driving hours’ and ‘working hours’ as a man of your calibre would know. The WTD restricts ‘working hours’ to 48hr p/w. This can be opted out of, to a maximum of 60hr p/w though it still needs to be an average of 48hr over a 17 or 26 wk period. (although these hours can be circumvented by using POA) But i don’t need to tell you that, as you already know!
There is a nominal total of hours that can be worked in a week/fortnight by, as you said deducting what mandatory breaks you are required to take.
