Ladies and gents, please could someone clarify something for me?
Your two 10 hours drives. Is this in a fixed week or between weekly rests?
I was always led to believe that it was the former, but a mate of mine begs to differ. I’ve looked on the RHA Site and the gov.uk one, and now I’m seriously confused.
Have I been wrong all along? I’m sure I’ve posted what I thought to be correct up on here, and I’ve never been shot down in flames.
Cheers in advance. Paul
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It used to be in a fixed week but it’s now between two weekly rest periods…
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When did that change bud?
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I was always convinced that with working over a weekend, provided no more than 2 fell in the same fixed week, I could technically do 4 in my working week
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It didn’t
HTH
PaulNowak:
I was always convinced that with working over a weekend, provided no more than 2 fell in the same fixed week, I could technically do 4 in my working week
That’s correct. On the Vosa/government website about drivers’ hours it even gives an example of this.
Seeing as the weekly driving limit is 56hrs and you can drive 6 days between weekly rest periods you can’t fit more than 2 x 10hrs and 4 x 9 hrs anyway.
Reef:
Seeing as the weekly driving limit is 56hrs and you can drive 6 days between weekly rest periods you can’t fit more than 2 x 10hrs and 4 x 9 hrs anyway.
If you do 4 on 4 off and start on a Saturday you can do 4x10 hour drives 
Still limited to 56/90 hours obviously.
But the chap above says they now run between weekly rests, not the fixed week.
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I think he’s wrong still between two fixed weeks
Tachograph is the man for this.
I’m sure he’ll be along shortly Mr Beaver.
I was certain I was right on this one, but it’s not all that clear cut when you look on the official websites.
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Apologies I stand corrected I may have got confused with reduced rest periods
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Just rooted around on Gov.uk and DVSA Paul, and what I am getting is ’ twice a week '. " A week is classified as Mon 00.00 - Sun 23.59."
So my understanding off the official websites is twice in a fixed week.
eagerbeaver:
Just rooted around on Gov.uk and DVSA Paul, and what I am getting is ’ twice a week '. " A week is classified as Mon 00.00 - Sun 23.59."So my understanding off the official websites is twice in a fixed week.
You are correct driving hours are based on a fixed week as you said above.
Terry T:
If you do 4 on 4 off and start on a Saturday you can do 4x10 hour drives
But that only works once every blue moon - the 4 on 4 off pattern is irrelevant, you could do 5 on 2 off and still start on a Saturday and do 4x10 hour drives (plus a 9), in either case its not sustainable on a regular rota.
Similar question I was going to ask. So may as well ask here…started on Sunday after a reduced weekly… I still had 1 9 hour daily rest from last week to use, could I have used it Sunday night and still have 3 for this week? Thanks.
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PaulNowak:
Ladies and gents, please could someone clarify something for me?Your two 10 hours drives. Is this in a fixed week or between weekly rests?
I was always led to believe that it was the former, but a mate of mine begs to differ. I’ve looked on the RHA Site and the gov.uk one, and now I’m seriously confused.
Have I been wrong all along? I’m sure I’ve posted what I thought to be correct up on here, and I’ve never been shot down in flames.
raxore:
Similar question I was going to ask. So may as well ask here…started on Sunday after a reduced weekly… I still had 1 9 hour daily rest from last week to use, could I have used it Sunday night and still have 3 for this week?
As in my post above, you can have 3 reduced daily rest periods between 2 weekly rest periods, so when you’ve had a reduced weekly rest period you can have 3 reduced daily rest periods before your next weekly rest period.
(A weekly rest period is either a regular 45 hour weekly rest period or a reduced weekly rest period)
You cannot carry available reduced daily rest periods over from 1 working week to the next 
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you can do four tens, sat, sun,min and Tuesday. You are correct. 
hence you can do six fifteens too! 
without the need of split daily rests! Fri, sat, Sunday, mon, tues and Wednesday. 
as long as you haven’t done any before and after the weekly rests. Technically/ legally yes you’re still correct. 