jbaz73:
when i looked in the jobcentre, there are still jobs being advertised as 50hr basic week plus overtime. i’m not really sure how they’re going to enforce the WTD but i’ve got a feeling that if they ever do, there will be a lot of very unhappy bunnies.
That is referring to shift times and not to working hours
A driver could do a shift of 15 hours and only drive for 6 and do other work for 2 in that time with the rest being POA or break so that shift will only be 8 hours for the RTD not 15
so you can only do at maximum 15hrs? if you worked say 16hrs of mixed driving and other duties followed by 9hrs rest that would be illegal? or on the other hand, you couldn’t do 15hrs each day as long as the driving rules and rest rules were not broken? the 15/13hrs are now a maximum?
Many make the same error as you have by talking about max shift times but the relevant issue is the amount of rest required within 24 hours from when the shift started or to put it better - from the end of the last daily (or weekly) rest period
Once you get that concept then you can get to the answers you wish to easier
For example does 16+9 fit into 24 ?
and if for example you were to take 3 weeks running of 24hr weekly rests, then the following 3 weeks of 45+24hr rest as compensation, that would be legal?
A Full unbroken weekly rest of at least 45 hours must be IN and ‘assigned to’ at least every other week
IN means at least 1 minute of that rest must be in that fixed week which runs from sunday midnight to sunday midnight so it can be ‘assigned’ to be the weekly rest for that fixed week
also when reducing the weekly rest, for example if i reduced by 10hrs, i would only have to take 10hrs compesation, or does any reduction have to be treated as if you have reduced to 24hrs and compensated for with 24hrs?
If you took 35 hours off instead of 45 then only 10 hours would need compensating for
i understand that reductions in weekly rest can still be compensated for by tagging it onto either a weekly or daily rest? that is still ok, it does not need to be added to a weekly rest period?
Any rest period be it daily or weekly - must be paid back in full in one go
i believe that the C licence is counted as provisional for CE. when i pass CE will it show up on my licence as a different category? what i mean is that when i passed C, my entitlement for C1 was merged into C (which was my original car test pass date and lasted till i’m 70) what i’m worried about is that when i pass CE the C category will disappear. given the 2 years experience problem, i would like to know if my original C entitlement with pass date will still be there so i have the opportunity to drive rigids until i can get a start on the artics.
C and CE show as differet categories on the licence
Not all categories show on the licence but are still there as a higher category may have hidden them
C1 is a subcategory of C
C1+E is a subcategory of C+E
Maybe things have changed with the new licences but until recently all the pre 1997 C1 and C1+E categories were shown seperately as they have a different expiry date than those other LGV categories gained by passing a DSA test
there seems to be some odd new rules and i want to make sure i understand them.