Carryfast:
Martin:
I’m retired so not really interested in doing full time work now… However …A few hours driving a gritter for a bit extra spending money might be interesting so I had a chat with my local gritter manager…
Quiet shocked that I can drive a gritter and don’t need a driver card! (I don’t have one as they came in after I retired so I would be
using the good old fashioned tacho)But then he tells me that I don’t even need to put a disc in the tacho and the gritters don’t have them anyway!
The mind boggles that rules for drivers can be ignored so easily…
From memory gritters were in scope of domestic regs like other council use HGV’s so log book not tachos.
But generally gritting is reserved for road maintenance operatives.
Yep,
No need for DCPC card because youre not moving goods commercially. Gritters are Road Maintenance, and so are exempt from EU rules [gov.uk/guidance/drivers-hou ... erogations](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles/1-eu-and-aetr-rules-on-drivers-hours#exemptions-and-derogations) So no need for tacho card either. If a tacho is fitted you could use it as an alternative to log books but it isnt legally necessary.