as said by the majority give and take ! 
seems your happy to take , it works both ways you know ?
I would suggest you look at the contract that you signed when you started the job. go through it very carefully with a fine tooth comb and see what it says about overtime, after all you did sign it in agreement.
In my experience contracts often contain loopholes and wrong wording which you can sometimes use to your advantage 
When it comes to contracts the devil is in the detail! My guess would be that itās covered in your contract. If thatās the case then maybe you have to ask yourself if the job really fits in with your requirements. Have you actually had a look at it?
I wonder since starting the job, how many hours under the 55 heās not worked. As thatās a lot of free pay heās had for doing nothing. The OP should try working for Ā£ās/hr then heāll soon start maxing out his hours to earn a decent wage
Richardf1fan:
Need some advice, am contract to 11 hours a day. so even if i do 8 i still get 11. At end of week if ive done 55hrs or under i get paid 55, so if i do over i get overtime pay.
What i want to know is if i start at say 6am on my first job from yard then get back to yard and they give me a second which i know will take me over my 11 am i within my rights to refuse to do this, as i consider this compulsory overtime, knowing im going to be over 11hrs before im back in the yard. I took this matter up with my tm who said that my contract says that im to do o/t as and when required to meet customer needs, and that i ā¦and i quote " You WILL do o/t" ā¦am i within my rights to refuse?
i havenāt read what everyone else has wroteā¦but I had a similar sort of thing a few years agoā¦your manager canāt make you do OVERTIME, but you have to look at it from a daily point of view, and a weekly point of view. Your manager CAN make you do more than 11 hours a day (provided you have the WTD hour available), but as soon as you reach 55 hours, he CANNOT make you do more than 55 hours unless you consent to it.
Soā¦he can make you do three 15 hour days (mon-wed) and if you only do a 10 hour day on thursday, he CANNOT make you work on friday. And he canāt make you do it via a āreasonable requestā as wellā¦a reasonable request would be something like asking you to give your truck a little clean at the end of the week if you got back to base an hour early on a friday.
What he can also do is this: Say you work 10 hours mon-thursā¦he can make you work a 15 hour day on friday, even if it does clash with your plans to finish early and pick up the kids from school.
our drivers who are on old contracts [55 hrs],always tell t.o theyll only do short runs at end of week,6/7/8 hrs if they look like there going to get near 55 hrs,a.f.a.i.k t.o gives them the short runs[n.b they dont get o/t above 55 hrs though,unless sat/sun]