I’ve been in a few refuse trucks and all of them had tachos fitted and I suspect that is because they CAN be used for domestic and commercial refuse collections
ROG:
I’ve been in a few refuse trucks and all of them had tachos fitted
I’ve never driven one so don’t know … well I do now 
ROG:
I’ve been in a few refuse trucks …
Blimey ROG, you do have a certain way with words, cos that’s a gift-wrapped quote. 
ROG:
I’ve been in a few refuse trucks …
I could write something very witty just here… 
Something like: Don’t refuse vehicles have something to stop the {zb} from falling back out once it’s loaded??
There’s plenty of mileage in this for quite a while.
Sorry ROG, I couldn’t resist. 
@ DD… 
ROG:
Does the driver have a choice of following either set of regs if doing something like door to door household bin collections ■■?
No. Door to door comes under domestic rather than EU rules. Domestic is limited to 11 hours duty in 24 hours. Working to EU rules, were you could have up to 15 hours duty in 24 hours, then you could commit an offence by working to EU rules instead of domestic so there is no choice available. simple really.
ROG:
ROG:
… I asked because I could not see anything in the regs that stated it MUST be one or the other - I probably didn’t look in the right place…
Why would it need to be stated in the regs when the answer is so obvious?
After a discussion with another member on how to read the regs, it became obvious that certain vehicles are excluded from the EU regs so can only be on domestic regs - house to house refuse colection vehicles being one of those.
I wonder what job the OP was doing at the time when he said he was entitled to a break at 6 hours ?
ROG:
After a discussion with another member on how to read the regs, it became obvious that certain vehicles are excluded from the EU regs so can only be on domestic regs - house to house refuse colection vehicles being one of those.I wonder what job the OP was doing at the time when he said he was entitled to a break at 6 hours ?
Well bearing in mind he wasn’t too clued up on the rules and more than a little confused it could have been domestic door to door or commercial. 
Right! I had been working for five hours and fifty five minutes (four hours twenty three of which had been driving) when I turned into the service yard of the Argentinian Embassy at 11.55pm on New years eve. Being sovereign territory of the argentinian government i was no longer in the UK but decided to leave the tacho set on Universal time Co-ordinated (UTC). It took three or four minutes to get through security but then to my horror i realized that i was collecting a domestic bin from the ambassador’s residence and a commercial bin from the embassy’s commercial department. With one bound I …(to be continued)