"Over 10 hours other work in 24 hours" - nights

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Fuzrat:
Quite simple really, dont falsify records, start your card from when you start your shift with the appropriate manual entry if needed, book legal breaks and actually take them. If compliance at your place says you must only do 10hrs from your start time to finish time irrelevant of POA or break then make ■■■■ sure you are back in the yard within the 10hrs even if that means that your run is not completed and you have to turn round halfway and head back. Play by their rules and they cant do anything about it as you are complying by not getting an infringement.
DVSA on the other hand will smash your rear doors in without any grease for falsifying a record at the start of the shift by not showing enough time for vehicle checks and working through breaks.

This puts it in a nutshell.
Job done.

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Franglais:
And the office will point out that they have told you off, but you continued on your way down the rocky path…

In which case the “authorities” (whoever the heck they are) will turn to the office and say WTD compliance is your problem not the drivers. You send the driver out on X run which has been shown constantly to take longer than 10 hours so you obviously didn’t take this into consideration.

Oddly I can work 15 hours overnight and it’s perfectly legal, but someone else can’t despite me never having seen the supposed agreement. Don’t think I’ll worry.

Actually wish I could work 10 hours tops some days.