Hi has anyone heard of a 3 hour tacho rule, allowing you to continue driving after you have ran out out time you can take a 3 hour rest. Then continue driving back to depot. Add 9 hours to your weekly 45 hours to make things leagal. Getting you home on a Friday.
I’ve heard of friday rules
bighands:
Hi has anyone heard of a 3 hour tacho rule, allowing you to continue driving after you have ran out out time you can take a 3 hour rest. Then continue driving back to depot. Add 9 hours to your weekly 45 hours to make things leagal. Getting you home on a Friday.
The clue is, when you’ve run out of time, then you’re out of time.
The only time 3 hours comes into it is for a split daily rest. If you get 3 hours on rest in one block in the shift, then you only need 9 hours off at the end of the shift, allowing a 15 spread. this doesn’t count as a reduced daily rest and there’s no limit on how many you can do, so you could do 3 reduced daily rests and 3 split rests or 6 x split rests allowing 6 x 15 hour spreads. And technically it needs to be rest and not break, so you must be free to dispose of your time as you wish and have a bunk.
Simple answer NO time up is time up,run back in Saturday.
Allowing a rule like that with some people or companies it would be highly risky,its the old saying “give them an inch and they take a yard”
Don’t tell me - you heard it on a CPC course 
What a load of rubbish. Some one got hold of the split rest rule and reinvented it to suit them. 
stevieboy308:
bighands:
Hi has anyone heard of a 3 hour tacho rule, allowing you to continue driving after you have ran out out time you can take a 3 hour rest. Then continue driving back to depot. Add 9 hours to your weekly 45 hours to make things leagal. Getting you home on a Friday.The clue is, when you’ve run out of time, then you’re out of time.
The only time 3 hours comes into it is for a split daily rest. If you get 3 hours on rest in one block in the shift, then you only need 9 hours off at the end of the shift, allowing a 15 spread. this doesn’t count as a reduced daily rest and there’s no limit on how many you can do, so you could do 3 reduced daily rests and 3 split rests or 6 x split rests allowing 6 x 15 hour spreads. And technically it needs to be rest and not break, so you must be free to dispose of your time as you wish and have a bunk.
Hope you don’t think I’m picking you up, because I know you have far more of a grasp on this than me, But I find it easier to explain it as a 12 hour split rest, some seem to get a handle on it that way
The only way a 3 hour rest could help you on your last day, was if you got delayed somewhere and only had a 13 left. The 3 hour rest would revert that shift to a 15.
Maybe that’s what your mate meant?
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I can’t find it in a search but I’m sure someone else asked about this 3 hour rule not too long ago, a bit more nonsense doing the rounds of RDC waiting rooms 
shep532:
Don’t tell me - you heard it on a CPC courseWhat a load of rubbish. Some one got hold of the split rest rule and reinvented it to suit them.
Absolutely I was taken back as I thought I pretty much knew all the rules. So I cross questioned the guy 5 or 6 times till he was ■■■■■■ off with me. But he still insisted he was right.
If you reverse it winds your tacho back so find a service area and keep reversing in circles til your drive time goes back far enough to get you home.
xichrisxi:
If you reverse it winds your tacho back so find a service area and keep reversing in circles til your drive time goes back far enough to get you home.
Do you have to reverse in circles or can you reverse all the way home?
eddie snax:
stevieboy308:
bighands:
Hi has anyone heard of a 3 hour tacho rule, allowing you to continue driving after you have ran out out time you can take a 3 hour rest. Then continue driving back to depot. Add 9 hours to your weekly 45 hours to make things leagal. Getting you home on a Friday.The clue is, when you’ve run out of time, then you’re out of time.
The only time 3 hours comes into it is for a split daily rest. If you get 3 hours on rest in one block in the shift, then you only need 9 hours off at the end of the shift, allowing a 15 spread. this doesn’t count as a reduced daily rest and there’s no limit on how many you can do, so you could do 3 reduced daily rests and 3 split rests or 6 x split rests allowing 6 x 15 hour spreads. And technically it needs to be rest and not break, so you must be free to dispose of your time as you wish and have a bunk.
Hope you don’t think I’m picking you up, because I know you have far more of a grasp on this than me, But I find it easier to explain it as a 12 hour split rest, some seem to get a handle on it that way
Whatever you find the best way to explain things is fine by me fella 
Captain Caveman 76:
xichrisxi:
If you reverse it winds your tacho back so find a service area and keep reversing in circles til your drive time goes back far enough to get you home.Do you have to reverse in circles or can you reverse all the way home?
I do that from Wednesday dinner time right up until Friday, where I finish where I started
Captain Caveman 76:
xichrisxi:
If you reverse it winds your tacho back so find a service area and keep reversing in circles til your drive time goes back far enough to get you home.Do you have to reverse in circles or can you reverse all the way home?
This is a bit of a school boy error made by rookies,if you reverse back to the yard then you will have driving time left and may get sent out again