I did a driving assessment last week on a day off during the week (didn’t effect either daily or weekly rest) and am wondering what will come up on the download of my card by my current workplace.
Will it just show me driving, or does it flag up a different VRN?
Just curious…
madmackem:
I did a driving assessment last week on a day off during the week (didn’t effect either daily or weekly rest) and am wondering what will come up on the download of my card by my current workplace.Will it just show me driving, or does it flag up a different VRN?
Just curious…
It will show all the things you did that day including which vehicle you were in.
It’s called a drivers card for a reason, it’s not anyone else’s card!
As you said, the assessment doesn’t affect your driving time or rest periods.
Wheel Nut:
As you said, the assessment doesn’t affect your driving time or rest periods.
I’ll wager…
That if you did an assessment drive on your day off, after your card has been downloaded the computer will show it as an infringement and some jobsworth will expect you to sign it as such.
Wheel Nut:
It’s called a drivers card for a reason, it’s not anyone else’s card!As you said, the assessment doesn’t affect your driving time or rest periods.
It hasn’t affected the OP’s daily or weekly rest, but only because he took a day off from his regular job midweek to do it. It certainly does affect his driving time for the next couple of weeks.
If he had done the assessment during a normal daily or weekly rest it would also impact on those rest periods.
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Roymondo:
Wheel Nut:
It’s called a drivers card for a reason, it’s not anyone else’s card!As you said, the assessment doesn’t affect your driving time or rest periods.
It hasn’t affected the OP’s daily or weekly rest, but only because he took a day off from his regular job midweek to do it. It certainly does affect his driving time for the next couple of weeks.
If he had done the assessment during a normal daily or weekly rest it would also impact on those rest periods.
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I’m half of a double manned crew and my fortnightly driving is only 37hrs, so nothing to worry about there. The assessment drive was only about 30 mins any way.
My point being that it certainly does impact on your driving and rest times, which is not what was being claimed.
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Your firm might be arsey because you’re obviously looking at ditching them for another job…
But they cannot actually discipline you in any way - providing you’re not a palletliner monday-friday driver with 60 hours on the card already that week. 
It’s your card - you get to decide to keep it legal or not.
If you do an assessment on an odd days holiday, then “Stat Leave” counts as 8 hours against you anyways, so it won’t matter if your firm then downloads your “day off” and sees you don’t say, 4 hours of driving on that day off. 
Roymondo:
My point being that it certainly does impact on your driving and rest times, which is not what was being claimed.Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk
You don’t know that from the original post, he could be a weekend agency driver or a part time driver. I answered because he seemed concerned about leaving a rogue registration number on a download. The cards record everything which keeps Company A and Company B compliant, and our driver is straight as a die.
Wheel Nut:
Roymondo:
My point being that it certainly does impact on your driving and rest times, which is not what was being claimed.Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk
You don’t know that from the original post, he could be a weekend agency driver or a part time driver. I answered because he seemed concerned about leaving a rogue registration number on a download. The cards record everything which keeps Company A and Company B compliant, and our driver is straight as a die.
I do know that from what he posted. You claimed that doing the assessment drive “doesn’t affect your driving time or rest periods.” Well, it does. Prior to doing the assessment, his driving time for that week was half an hour less than what it was afterwards - i.e. his driving time has been affected as it has increased by 30 minutes. Whether he is now at risk of being over the 90 hours allowed in a fortnight is neither here nor there - your statement that it “doesn’t affect your driving time” is incorrect, and that’s my point.
For what its worth the last company I worked for never noticed that I drove for a few days in Spain for someone else , well I was bored on holiday, and it was free sightseeing 
.Depends how closely they look , ours was all automated and only threw up the infringements