can someone please put up a basic guide to driving hours and tachographs please as still unsure about these.
ta very much
Don’t think there is one really. Its so complicated. VOSA site does have some useful stuff, including the definitive guide that you can download.
Also I think it was last months Trucking or Truck and Driver had the VOSA DVD attached and that is a very good guide.
lol i got that dvd from T&D what a waste of time lol fair enough if your already a driver you would understand it but no good for someone just starting out way to complicated
DABenji:
lol i got that dvd from T&D what a waste of time lol fair enough if your already a driver you would understand it but no good for someone just starting out way to complicated
Have you checked out the posts in HERE?
DABenji:
can someone please put up a basic guide to driving hours and tachographs please as still unsure about these.ta very much
If you need help with the regulations you really need to be more specific about what you don’t understand, the regulations are just to many to ask for a guide to the lot, see if this helps and feel free to ask about anything you’re not sure of.
| **EU Drivers Hours Regulations** | |
| **Driving** | |
| Daily Driving Time | Maximum 9 hours accumulated driving time between two daily rest periods or between a daily rest period and a weekly rest period.
However, the daily driving time may be extended to at most 10 hours not more than twice during the week. |
| Weekly Driving | A weekly driving time limit of 56 hours is specified in the regulations. |
| Fortnightly driving | The total accumulated driving time during any two consecutive weeks shall not exceed 90 hours. |
| Breaks | |
| Breaks from driving | After a driving period of four and a half hours a driver shall take an uninterrupted break of not less than 45 minutes, unless he takes a rest period.
This break may be replaced by a break of at least 15 minutes followed by a break of at least 30 minutes, each distributed over the period in such a way as to comply with the provisions of the first paragraph. After a break/breaks totaling 45 minutes the four and half hours driving time is reset. |
| WTD Breaks | No mobile worker shall work for more than six hours without a break, (Break = 15 minutes minimum).
Working time shall be interrupted by a break of at least 30 minutes, if working hours total between six and nine hours. Working time shall be interrupted by a break of at least 45 minutes, if working hours total more than nine hours. Each break may be made up of separate periods of not less than 15 minutes each. |
| The driving breaks and the wtd breaks complement each other, If a 45 minute break is taken to comply with the driving regulations it will count towards the wtd break, likewise if a break is taken in order to comply with the wtd regulations it can count towards the mandatory driving break as long as it fits in with the driving break regulations. | |
| Daily and Weekly Rest | |
| Daily rest | A daily rest period of 11 hours should be taken in the 24 hour period commencing at the end of the last daily or weekly rest period.
The daily rest period may be reduced to 9 hours no more than three times between any two weekly rest periods. Where a driver takes daily rest periods away from base, they may be taken in a vehicle, provided that there are suitable sleeping facilities for each driver and the vehicle is stationary. |
| Split Daily rest | When split daily rest is taken it must total12 hours. The 12 hour rest period can be taken in two periods. |
| Weekly Rest | Within six 24 hour periods from the end of the last weekly rest period, a driver will extend a daily rest period into either:
In any two consecutive weeks, a driver shall take at least two regular weekly rest periods, or one regular weekly rest period and one reduced weekly rest period of at least 24 hours. Any rest taken as compensation for a reduced weekly rest period shall be attached to another rest period of at least nine hours. A weekly rest period that falls in two weeks may be counted in either week, but not in both. A rest period of at least 69 hours in total may be counted as two back-to-back weekly rests (e.g. a 45-hour weekly rest followed by 24 hours), provided that the driver does not exceed 144 hours’ work either before or after the rest period in question. |
| **POA** | |
| POA | Generally speaking a period of availability (PoA) is waiting time, the duration of which is known about in advance by the mobile worker. Under the Regulations, these periods have to meet the following criteria:
Mobile workers do not need to be formally notified about a PoA and its duration in advance. It is enough that they know about it (and the foreseeable duration) in advance. There are no requirements as to the minimum and maximum length of a PoA. Like breaks and rest periods, a PoA can be taken at the workstation, providing the mobile worker has a reasonable amount of freedom (e.g. he can relax and read) for a known duration, this would satisfy the requirements for a PoA. Where the mobile worker knows about a delay in advance, but it is deemed prudent that the driver should remain in the cab for reasons of security or safety, this should not in itself disqualify this delay being recorded as a PoA. Typical examples might include waiting at a site that is unsafe for pedestrians or staying in a vehicle carrying high value goods or cash. A PoA does not apply to delays where the mobile worker has to continue working. For example, where a driver is diverted due to a road closure, he/she would still be driving. If a mobile worker is monitoring a discharge from the vehicle (e.g. petrol at filling station), this time will also count as working time. Examples of a PoA:
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| **Multi-Manning** | |
| Multi-manning | Within 30 hours of the end of a daily or weekly rest period, a driver engaged in multi-manning must have taken a new daily rest period of at least 9 hours. For the first hour of multi-manning the presence of another driver or drivers is optional, but for the remainder of the period it is compulsory. Where a vehicle is manned by two or more drivers, each driver must have a daily rest period of at least 9 consecutive hours within the 30-hour period that starts at the end of the last daily or weekly rest period. Organising drivers’ duties in such a fashion enables their duties to be spread over 21 hours. For the first hour of multi-manning the presence of another driver or drivers is optional, but for the remainder of the period it is compulsory. Vehicles manned by two or more drivers are governed by the same rules that apply to single-manned vehicles, apart from the daily rest requirements. The maximum driving for a two-man crew taking advantage of this concession is 20 hours before a daily rest is required (although only if both drivers are entitled to drive 10 hours). Under multi-manning, the ‘second’ driver in a crew may not necessarily be the same driver for the duration of the first driver’s shift but could in principle be any number of drivers as long as the conditions are met. Whether these second drivers could claim the multi-manning concession in these circumstances would depend on their other duties. On a multi-manning operation the first 45 minutes of a period of availability will be considered to be a break, so long as the co-driver does no work. |
| Ferry or Train | |
| Ferry or Train | Where a driver accompanies a vehicle which is transported by ferry or train, and takes a regular (not less than 11 hour) daily rest period, that period may be interrupted not more than twice by other activities not exceeding one hour in total.
During that regular daily rest period the driver shall have access to a bunk or couchette. |
to be honest thats what i was looking for everything else i have read has been way to in depth just needed somthing with a basic guide to what can and cant be done