Driving company car legal

Derek Yates:

Derek Yates:
If a driver parks up when his drive time is up. If another driver is sent out to collect him. Is he legal to drive the company pool car either back to base or home providing he’s got enough duty time?

So when would that duty time be up. When he arrives back to base or home? Or when he pulled his card? If he was 20 mins from home but his duty time was up on 15 mins is that illegal. What if was only 10 mins drive but traffic held him up.

Time spent travelling to/from a vehicle that is not at either its operating base or the driver’s home cannot be part of a Daily or Weekly Rest. If the driver returns straight home then that journey forms part of his “duty time”. If he travels back to the vehicles operating base then that is where his “duty time” finishes. In either case, this time must be recorded using either handwritten manual entries at the time or using the manual input facility at the start of his next shift. Any deviation from Regs would need a written explanation on a printout, just like any other.

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