Max 48 hours per week average... Am I missing something?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Sidevalve:
Where the WTD falls flat on its arse;

You’re on your way back to base in the afternoon, having done all your drops, base is twenty minutes drive away and you’ve got an hour of driving time left. Unfortunately you’ve accrued five hours and forty-five minutes of working time without a break, so you’ve got to sit and twiddle your thumbs in a lay-by for fifteen minutes before you can carry on and go home. Effectively, if you add in the start and stop bits all it achieves is that you end up getting home twenty minutes later, with a corresponding shortfall in your available daily rest. That does nowt for a driver’s safety or long-term well-being; in fact it only serves to raise stress levels.

The same applies in the case of can’t drive more than 4.5 hours without 45 minutes break.Which in the case of 10 hours driving means having to take pointless extra break at the expense of daily rest time.

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I’m being predantic here (is that how you spell it) but say you had a job where you drove 9 hours a day 5 days a week add on your daily walk around checks @ 10 mins per day plus filling up with diesel it doesn’t give you much time to load and unload does it ? :wink: Another well thought out regulation for our industry.No doubt someone will pick faults at this

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The opt out is for night working and the majority have already decided