JagMaz:
I’ve been driving for almost 20 years but I’ve come across a situation I’m completely not sure about:
I thought it might be ok but the more ‘uninonised’ of our drivers suggested to NOT do it, insist another driver takes over, just in case.
So, here we go:
Normally we only work an hour or two outside of shop hours as a multi drop high street delivery but occasionally we are asked to work outside of normal hours.
This was the week in question.
Monday 0100 - 1400 (13 hours work, 11 hours break)
Tuesday 0700 - 1500 (8 hours work, 10 hours break)
Weds 0700 - 1600 (9 hours work, 9 hours break)
Thurs 0600 - 1600 (10 hours work, 9 hours break - that’s three reduced breaks)
Friday was the problem, was asked to start noon and work until approximately 10pm.
So as my 24hour day is starting at 1am for this week, we can see I had 9 hours between 1600Thu and 0100Fri.
Do I need to work BETWEEN daily breaks or would the break between 0100Fri and noon on Friday count as a legitimate 11 hour break so that I could do that noon-2200 shift?
Having never encountered this situation before I wasn’t sure but couldn’t find anything on google to suggest I couldn’t.
Does anyone have anything they could suggest should it come up again?
Cheers in advance
The mistake you’re making is in thinking that because you started at 01:00 on Monday the 24 hour period starts at that time every day, it doesn’t because once you’ve completed a daily or weekly rest period you start a new 24 hour period.
On Monday you started at 01:00 so you had to complete the daily rest period by 01:00Tuesday.
However, you had a daily rest period then started a new shift at 07:00 Tuesday, this started a new 24 hour period and you had to have completed a daily rest period by 07:00 Wednesday (24 hours from the start of the shift).
In other words, whenever you start a new shift after a regular or reduced daily rest period or a weekly rest period you start a new 24 hour period, so the 24 hour period can start at different times each day if you start work at different times each day.
You must always complete the daily rest period within the 24 hour period from the start of the shift, but once you’ve completed the daily rest period or a weekly rest period you start a new 24 hour period no matter what time it is.
Weekly rest periods
You must start a weekly rest period no later than six 24 hour periods from the end of the last weekly rest periods.
For weekly rest periods the 24 hour period is actually a period of 24 hours, six 24 hour periods is 144 hours (6*24=144), so you must start a new weekly rest period no later than 144 hours from the end of your last weekly rest period.
You started the working week at 01:00 Monday, so you must start a new weekly rest period no later than 01:00 the following Sunday.
