There is a rumour that it is being abolished in September but nobody can support this with any links etc. Anyone heard of it preferably with a link if they are confirming it?
Oh no… how will the ‘can I do six 15 hours in a week’ brigade cope? 
Absolute rubbish.
Nothing wrong with the reduced rest, as long as it only applies when you’re actually in the truck IMO. As a home every night sort of guy (bring your insults 
), I do think it should be changed. If I slept out in the truck and on my return leg, I wouldn’t want to be hanging about 3 extra hours (assuming I’m asleep for 8 ) before I could get a shift on.
Anyway I hate to say it but it smacks of ■■■■■■■■ anyway. Only place things get done for truckers in France. Nobody here is brave enough.
scanny77:
There is a rumour that it is being abolished in September but nobody can support this with any links etc. Anyone heard of it preferably with a link if they are confirming it?
Sounds a bit like wishful thinking to me.
Got mixed feelings, most of me says ‘Bring it on’ but I only use it to suit ME anyway, no other reason.
Nobody should be made to do it, and a lot are, but for me it is always handy on fri night/Sat morn on my way home.
the nodding donkey:
Oh no… how will the ‘can I do six 15 hours in a week’ brigade cope?
Don’t know mate, but who gives a ■■■■ about those morons anyway
I’d love this to be true, then my manager could ram that 14.5hr day every Tuesday and Thursday right up her farter!
Personally I hope it is rubbish. I refuse to take a 9 off if I am going home (35+ minutes commute each way) but I dont want to take 11 off on the odd occasion when my bed is behind my seat. Its like most rules though, drivers want them written for us and managers want them written for them. You cant please everybody 
robroy:
the nodding donkey:
Oh no… how will the ‘can I do six 15 hours in a week’ brigade cope?Don’t know mate, but who gives a [zb] about those morons anyway
Quite. As long as my boss let’s me, I’m more than happy to live it up in a layby or a quiet industrial estate, for 11 hours or more. There is more to parking up for the night then sleeping. There’s walking to the pub, watching re-runs on Dave, catching up with the interweb, sleeping off that walk to the pub… 
. Those ‘home every night’ boys don’t know what they’re missing…
I think the rumour is if at home you can’t have a 9 off as it was a long long long time ago
scanny77:
There is a rumour that it is being abolished in September but nobody can support this with any links etc. Anyone heard of it preferably with a link if they are confirming it?
9 hour reduced rest is up to the driver not the company same as overtime .
theskunck:
9 hour reduced rest is up to the driver not the company same as overtime .
There’s plenty of drivers who don’t think it is.
As to the rest, I agree it shouldn’t be allowed to be used at base but with digi tachos no longer requiring the location other than country to be recorded at the start and end of duty, how could that be policed?
nick2008:
I think the rumour is if at home you can’t have a 9 off as it was a long long long time ago
the the way the regs work, the rest and work must fit in 24 hours, it would mean you couldn’t do a 15 hour shift if you’re going home, so if it was going to take you 14 hours to get back to the yard, you’d be goosed
i think it’s a good idea in principal, but how many times will the regs get slagged off for being stupid, when someone wants an earlier finish, but has to start 2 hours later than if they were in the truck