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DickyNick:
In cpc they told us it’s legal if you’ve run out of duty time they can send a company car or van to you, then this is where we are splitting hairs, they CANT tell you have to bring the car back to the depot or anywhere else. You have to be free to go where you want ie home. You can go to the depot out of your choice and let’s its face your going to because that’s where your own car be. But as long as they don’t tell you to then it’s legal.I wouldn’t agree with that, travelling to or from the lorry cannot be counted as rest.
If you go home and back in your daily rest period that’s your choice but if you travelled back to base or home then started the next shift from base it would be illegal.
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So you go home legally in the vehicle provided, company then has the truck brought back to base by other drivers with out telling you, you wouldn’t have any choice but to go back to base to start your next shift, or would the company have to take the truck back to the original stopping place.
I’ve never heard of anyone getting done for this offence, maybe they have, but there seems to a few ways to get around the legalities of it all.