If you work as a driver for a company, duty time is any working time. If you’re self-employed, duty time is only time you spend driving the vehicle or doing other work related to the vehicle or its load.
Daily duty limit
You must not be on duty for more than 11 hours in any working day. This limit doesn’t apply on any working day when you don’t drive.
That means I have gone over my limits 2 days out of the 3? Or does my hour breaks get taken off my duty time?
That’s for domestic regulations, are you on EU regulations or UK domestic regulations ?
How would I find out? It’s for AF Blakemore in Hastings delivering to Spar Services/Stores.
Pretty sure if it has a digi tacho then it falls under EU law?
m1cks:
Start 06:00 work until 10:00 (take 15 mins ) work until 12:45 (take 30 mins <this combined with your earlier 15 is the 45 required to reset your drive time>) finish 19:00.
12:15 in that scenario. 12:45 would be 6.5 hours work.
If he starts at 06:00 and has a 15 minute break at 10:00, assuming he doesn’t need a driving break he could work past 12:45 if he wanted to, he could go on until 16:15 before needing another WTD break.
Indeed, I didn’t think it through completely when I answered. It’s been a long day, I had to work fir three hours.
Three whole hours
That’s the problem with being self employed your times not your own
I suggest if you’re struggling with hours field the DVSA (VOSA) Drivers Hours Handbook, print it off and pop it in a folder and keep it with you and peruse it at leisure. I find that handbook the best and easiest to understand version of the regulations.
… I think that is less than 11 hours