The company I work for does a double manned trunk run which is pretty standard fare with drivers starting and finishing together, and splitting the driving into 4 equal 2:20 hr stints.
No breaks are taken as the 1st 45 mins of POA resets the clock for the passenger. Stops are taken for toilet and fuel and leg stretches so its not 12 hours of being sat down.
One of the drivers went for an interview with another parcel company, and he didn’t get any further than the digicard download desk. The interviewer said his card contained a week of infringements for when he was doing the double manned run. Both for working time and driving time.
I have emailed the DVSA roadside enforcement officers mailbox, but have yet to receive a reply. What I wanted really was something on paper to say what we are doing is correct and legal to show my colleagues and manager (who is doubting himself now). As for the other parcel company, I wonder of they would be bothered to look deeper into this or just keep to their policy spiel. The same company had posters around their depot advising drivers to ensure they had a 30 minute break at 6 hours, which we all know should be 15 mins. Company policy getting confused with the law. My jokey suggestion was to accidentally lose your digicard.
I presume that the enforcement officers do look at the activity log, and can see the wheels were moving when the card in slot 2 was on POA, and this would be enough to explain the lack of break on the card.
Thanks for any insight.