mark1284:
Whats the score with pulling your card when you get back to base? For example you pull on to the fuel pumps on 14:59 working time then pull your card… fuel up then go park the vehicle up as your on private landSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Legally, of course, you’re not supposed to. And it’s folly to think it isn’t recorded; because a simple download will prove that the vehicle was moved after the card was pulled not only when but how far and for how long; the only difficulty DVSA would have would be proving that it was you who moved it. What you are supposed to do is park the vehicle, do two printouts (one to keep for 28 days and one to give to the gaffer) and write on the back the reason for the infringement, usually “to access safe parking”, and sign it. But as we all know, that action inevitably causes more trouble than pulling the card if you happen to work for one of those firms with a “zero tolerance” policy on infringements.
That having been said, DVSA know that it happens; and my guess is that so long as drivers do not make a regular habit of it, they deem it sensible to leave alone, because if they enforced stuff to that level of micro-management, nobody would ever get anything done.
There is no such thing as “private land” under tacho rules any more. it pretty much disappeared around the time digital tachos came in, amongst a few other changes. You’re either driving or you’re not, regardless of where it is.