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NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Frindal:
If you had reduced daily rest (9 hours), how many working hours can you do after that 13 or 15?
I been told by many driver you can only do up to 13 hours a day if you have reduced daily rest.

So is that mean you can’t do 9 hours rest and then 15 hours work three times a week?

A reduced daily rest period of 9 hours means you’ve done no more than 13 hours work prior to the reduced daily rest taking place, there’s nothing stopping you then doing a 15 hour shift if that’s what you want or need to do.

It’s true that you can only do a 13 hour shift on the day that you have a 9 hour reduced daily rest period but that does not affect the shift that follows a reduced daily rest period.

Frindal:
So is that mean you can’t do 9 hours rest and then 15 hours work three times a week?

The daily rest period has to be completed within the period of 24 hours from the start of the shift and that’s what limits a shift to 13 or 15 hours.

A daily rest period is a rest period of 11 hours or more, a reduced daily rest period is a rest period of less than 11 hours but not less than 9 hours.

If you do a shift of more than 13 hours you’re having a reduced daily rest period because you won’t be able to have 11 hours rest in the period of 24 hours from the start of the shift:

  • 13 hours work plus 11 hours rest equals 24 hours (the period of 24 hours from the start of the shift).
  • 13 hours and one minute work means you can only fit 10 hours and 59 minutes daily rest into the period of 24 hours from the start of the shift, so it’s a reduced daily rest period.

You can have 3 reduced daily rest periods between weekly rest periods so if you have 1 reduced daily rest period you can only have 2 more before a weekly rest period.

If you can only have 3 reduced daily rest periods between weekly rest periods it figures that you can only do 3 shifts over 13 hours 3 times between weekly rest periods.

There are split daily rest periods which allow you to do a 15 hour shift and only have 9 hours rest after the shift but that’s another subject altogether :wink: