Driving company car legal

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?

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?

Yep as you say as long as still got duty time
No duty time stay in truck 9 hours off

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?

YES - that would be recorded as - other work

Skills Coaches

9 The first category of prosecutions (Category A) concerns Messrs Farmer and Burley. On several occasions they travelled by car either from their homes or from Skills’s operating centre to the point at which they were to take over a vehicle which was subject to the requirement to install and use a tachograph (hereinafter a tachograph vehicle). The time the drivers spent reaching that point appeared as working periods on the roster but was not shown manually on the tachograph sheets as required by Article 15(2) and (3) of Regulation No 3821/85.

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.

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.

Duty/shift time ends when at either home or base

A certain amount of over-duty flexibility is overlooked as a one-off by authorities but it will still show up as an infringement

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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