What I dont understand is this. If you say have your tacho on the sandwich mode so that you’re not falsely showing rest you didn’t actually have, when you’re not driving, it still shows on the tacho as a thinner black line as work or duty and as such doesn’t all this have to be added to your 48hr average as the tacho actually shows working time?
At the end of the day even though I may leave my tacho on rest all the time (then again, I may not) I only use this to my own benefit and if I actually have been working (which I ofcourse wont have) then after say 50 minutes un/loading I’d take a ‘proper’ rest anyway a few miles down the road so I wont be paid any less, I’d just be in a position to do as I like as I’d have a fresh 4.5hrs depending on the ‘rest’ length and should certain circumstances arise where by I need to get somewhere quickly or anything at all, I’m in a position to do so.