We have a local company collecting vehicles ranging from 7.5t to Tractor Units taking them for servicing then returning them back to the yard - do these drivers by law require them to put in there driver card?
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Local? As in next door or as in next village?
We have some that go local as in within 5 miles and some that go 15 miles. Cheers.
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Your company will have to account for mileage not recorded on their employees tachos, so by rights i’d expect the ferry drivers to use and download their cards on your machine at least once a week.
Doesn’t it depend on who’s driving them, and what their job title is?
A mechanic/fitter doesn’t have to use a card, but a driver does?
Our mercs are picked up and he puts he’s card in
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steviespain:
Doesn’t it depend on who’s driving them, and what their job title is?
A mechanic/fitter doesn’t have to use a card, but a driver does?
Most mechanics don’t hold a driver card or DCPC, why would they?
Wheel Nut:
steviespain:
Doesn’t it depend on who’s driving them, and what their job title is?
A mechanic/fitter doesn’t have to use a card, but a driver does?Most mechanics don’t hold a driver card or DCPC, why would they?
All the one`s I know do, they come in very handy for cash jobs or weekend shifts when they are off, or nightshifts when they are not 
It depends on the distance and how the main occupation of the driver is classified.
Mechanics I know are busy enough earning £20+ per hour and don’t want the agro of minimum wage jobs, each to their own I suppose
My daughter used to work for a garage. They employed a guy whose job was to collect and deliver trucks, take them for MOTs and do some steam cleaning in his spare time.
His job description was mechanic but VOSA disagreed and said that he should be using a card on all his journeys. I don’t know if the customers had to download it as well though.
So long as they never carry a load or passenger in that employment, then they’re out of scope of the EU regs. So don’t need to use their card, they will then be under GB domestic regs, if they don’t drive for more than 4 hours per day and stay within 50km of their base, then no records are required at all. If that isn’t the case then they can fill in a logbook or use their card and set the vu to out of scope
As above, exempt from EU regs. Tacho should be set to ? mode to indicate out of scope.
Im I right in saying that they would need to be class 1 to drive tractor unit as it got a fifth wheel. Ive seen guys with class 2`s doing this thinking it legal but its not??
DF40:
Im I right in saying that they would need to be class 1 to drive tractor unit as it got a fifth wheel. Ive seen guys with class 2`s doing this thinking it legal but its not??
Nope, a unit is a rigid without a trailer! They can even tow a trailer plated at 750kgs!
DF40:
Im I right in saying that they would need to be class 1 to drive tractor unit as it got a fifth wheel. Ive seen guys with class 2`s doing this thinking it legal but its not??
It’s perfecly legal to do this as a tractor unit is the C part and a trailer is the E part in a C+E licence, no E means a C licence can be used.
Cheers. Some (zb) of a driver instructor told me this
Conor:
As above, exempt from EU regs. Tacho should be set to ? mode to indicate out of scope.
You can’t set it to ? But you can set it to out of scope!!
Something like
Menu, scroll down to vehicle entry, ok,
When you see out, think it’s the 1st one anyway, click ok, you are now set to out of scope of the EU regs and it’ll say out in the bottom left corner
Wheel Nut:
Mechanics I know are busy enough earning £20+ per hour and don’t want the agro of minimum wage jobs, each to their own I suppose
I certainly dont pay minimum wage, and when they are stood down for their break, whats not to like if they want to earn another £150 / £180 for an easy shift instead of being dragged down town shopping, or the pub ■■?
Come to think of it, 75% of the class on my last CPC borefest were mechanics, as I knew most of them from my dealings with certain mainstealers 
At my depot Mercs are collected and returned by drivers employed to do just that. The DAFs are collected by the mechanic who is going to carry out the inspection. He comes in a van and leaves it in the yard until he comes back with the unit. I had a DAF inspected last Friday and today our head office tacho checker wanted to know who had driven it last Friday, as she didn’t recognise the driver card number used in the tacho, so the DAF mechanics at this particular dealership are using a card.