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FERRY CROSSING AND DRIVING/REST HOURS

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Re: FERRY CROSSING AND DRIVING/REST HOURS

Postby Franglais » Wed Jul 03, 2019 4:57 am

mrginge wrote:Im surprised I don't get more infringements sometimes. :wink:

Been using ferry mode a couple of times a week lately without a thought for the 24hr rule just remembering I can't use a 9hr break and add minutes moving on to the 11hr.
Obviously not working hard enough.
I'm surprised your boss actually turns a profit.
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Re: FERRY CROSSING AND DRIVING/REST HOURS

Postby mrginge » Wed Jul 03, 2019 7:50 pm

Franglais wrote:
mrginge wrote:Im surprised I don't get more infringements sometimes. :wink:

Been using ferry mode a couple of times a week lately without a thought for the 24hr rule just remembering I can't use a 9hr break and add minutes moving on to the 11hr.
Obviously not working hard enough.
I'm surprised your boss actually turns a profit.
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My boss/owner has just retired to his life of leisure so he must have quoted jobs accordingly haha
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Re: FERRY CROSSING AND DRIVING/REST HOURS

Postby lewn777 » Sat May 14, 2022 5:01 pm

I' got some infringements a few weeks ago none this week. Here's my take for anyone new/confused by ferry mode:

-The law says 11 hour rest period, but if you take a 9 hour reduced rest providing you still have one remaining that week you'll be fine. You're basically flagging a legal rest as why you moved so legal rest is legal rest.

-Start Ferry mode just before you move on to the ferry, turn it off when aboard and movements have finished. Start ferry mode again before disembarking and leave on until you find a legal place to rest unless rest has already been 9 hours or more/legal amount total.

-Do not allow the tacho to go to rest/POA if you stop/turn off your engine/ignition during embarking or disembarking, this will count as a movement, more than two movements and this will show up as insufficient rest infringement. Ferry mode defualts to other work and drive when the engine is running despite tacho set-up. Monitor the tacho and make sure it never goes to rest or POA, if it does manually reselect other work within 30 seconds.

-Make certain that tacho is set to rest when you leave your lorry on the boat and go to your cabin.

-Doesn't matter much about countries - when you log out of a country or log in to a new one, or forget entirely doesn't cause an infringement, but it's something you should do.

-Doesn't matter about changing the time, if entering a new time zone. doesn't cause an infringement as tacho uses to UTC as default.
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Re: FERRY CROSSING AND DRIVING/REST HOURS

Postby barrykam » Sat May 14, 2022 5:20 pm

lewn777 wrote:I' got some infringements a few weeks ago none this week. Here's my take for anyone new/confused by ferry mode:

-The law says 11 hour rest period, but if you take a 9 hour reduced rest providing you still have one remaining that week you'll be fine. You're basically flagging a legal rest as why you moved so legal rest is legal rest.

-Start Ferry mode just before you move on to the ferry, turn it off when aboard and movements have finished. Start ferry mode again before disembarking and leave on until you find a legal place to rest unless rest has already been 9 hours or more/legal amount total.

-Do not allow the tacho to go to rest/POA if you stop/turn off your engine/ignition during embarking or disembarking, this will count as a movement, more than two movements and this will show up as insufficient rest infringement. Ferry mode defualts to other work and drive when the engine is running despite tacho set-up. Monitor the tacho and make sure it never goes to rest or POA, if it does manually reselect other work within 30 seconds.

-Make certain that tacho is set to rest when you leave your lorry on the boat and go to your cabin.

-Doesn't matter much about countries - when you log out of a country or log in to a new one, or forget entirely doesn't cause an infringement, but it's something you should do.

-Doesn't matter about changing the time, if entering a new time zone. doesn't cause an infringement as tacho uses to UTC as default.



For anyone new/confused by ferry mode:

The only correct point made above is "Make certain that tacho is set to rest when you leave your lorry on the boat and go to your cabin."

Every other point made is incorrect.
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