delboytwo:
if you look at this in the GV262 you will see there use the term 144 hours work
Coffeeholic:
Doesn’t really matter what it says in GV262, it isn’t the regulations we work to and much like The Highway Code you won’t be prosecuted for ‘breaking’ GV262. Concentrate on what it says in the actual regulations and not a dumbed down guide to them.
The number of daily rest periods between weekly rest periods was cleared up by VOSA for UK drivers by saying that there is no limit to the number of daily rest periods that can be taken between the weekly rest periods.
That is great to have a definition for UK drivers BUT other EU countries may view article 8 of 561/2006 in a different light.
This issue has now gone to the EU commission for clarification as it cannot be right that one EU country can be different to others for one set of EU regulations
So far, no-one has come up with proof as to how other EU countries regard article 8 of 561/2006 so it may be that they do regard it as the same as VOSA but until we know…
This is one reply I’ve had…
Dear Roger,
we have now heard back from the Commission regarding your query.
He has pointed us towards the last part of the regulation: Paragraph 6, article 8, which states:
6. In any two consecutive weeks a driver shall take at least:
- two regular weekly rest periods, or
- one regular weekly rest period and one reduced weekly rest period of at least 24 hours. However, the reduction shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in question.
A weekly rest period shall start no later than at the end of six 24-hour periods from the end of the previous weekly rest period.
He seemed to think that this means therefore that it is not possible to have more than 6 daily rest periods between weekly rest periods.
As always with EU legislation, this is clearly one of those paragraphs that takes repeated reading in order to tease out any information, but I hope it helps!
Kind regards,
Donna Edmunds
Political Advisor to Roger Helmer MEP
0032 2284 7764
