OK so we are allowed to have a reduced daily rest of 9 hours. We can do it 3 times between weekly rests.
Can we do it 3 nights on the trot? (I know i dont agree with it but whats the correct answer.)
And Part 2 …
If you finish your shift and go home to wait for the phone call for tomorrows work? Do you have to be given minimum 9 hours notice or can the gaffer ring you at 8pm and tell you that you are starting at 2am because you finished your daily shift at say 4pm.
Alan…:
OK so we are allowed to have a reduced daily rest of 9 hours. We can do it 3 times between weekly rests.Can we do it 3 nights on the trot? (I know i dont agree with it but whats the correct answer.)
And Part 2 …
If you finish your shift and go home to wait for the phone call for tomorrows work? Do you have to be given minimum 9 hours notice or can the gaffer ring you at 8pm and tell you that you are starting at 2am because you finished your daily shift at say 4pm.
Yes and No. But on the second part I would give him your mobile number and tell him if he didn’t text by 6pm I would be going into the office for about 8am to see what I was doing.
If it happened occasionally due to some unforeseen circumstance then it may be acceptable. if it happens regularly, then the planning department is not planning. Ringing at 8pm and expecting you to report for work at 2am is just dangerous for you and others.
Alan…:
OK so we are allowed to have a reduced daily rest of 9 hours. We can do it 3 times between weekly rests.Can we do it 3 nights on the trot? (I know i dont agree with it but whats the correct answer.)
You could do it six times on the trot.
Weekly Rest
Monday - 0600 - 2100
Tuesday - 0600 - 2100
Wednesday - 0600 - 2100
Thursday - 2100 - 1200
Friday - 2100 - 1200
Saturday - 2100 - 1200
Six reduced daily rest periods in a row, no split rest option used, and legal.
Coffeeholic:
Alan…:
OK so we are allowed to have a reduced daily rest of 9 hours. We can do it 3 times between weekly rests.Can we do it 3 nights on the trot? (I know i dont agree with it but whats the correct answer.)
You could do it six times on the trot.
Weekly Rest
Monday - 0600 - 2100
Tuesday - 0600 - 2100
Wednesday - 0600 - 2100
Thursday - 2100 - 1200
Friday - 2100 - 1200
Saturday - 2100 - 1200
Six reduced daily rest periods in a row, no split rest option used, and legal.
OH Dear, ■■■■ and Blast … DONT anybody show my gaffer this post.
I gained a roasting from taking 3 x 9 hour breaks on the trot, although they were actually more like 3 X 10:30 breaks. According to the card reading program in our transport office you can’t do that. And because it reckoned I’d taken insufficient daily rest, it refused to acknowledge the third daily rest period at all, so it decided to give me two other infringements for driving beyond the daily hour limit and working beyondshift time limit, how generous. So I asked my boss and he said you can’t do 3 consecutively. Oh well, you live and learn! I’d never been in the working situation before where I’d need to take 9 hours, being a rookie and all that, plus a large printout of tacho rules I’d been given a year previously didn’t mention anything about not taking 3 in a row…
manowar:
I gained a roasting from taking 3 x 9 hour breaks on the trot, although they were actually more like 3 X 10:30 breaks. According to the card reading program in our transport office you can’t do that. And because it reckoned I’d taken insufficient daily rest, it refused to acknowledge the third daily rest period at all, so it decided to give me two other infringements for driving beyond the daily hour limit and working beyondshift time limit, how generous. So I asked my boss and he said you can’t do 3 consecutively. Oh well, you live and learn! I’d never been in the working situation before where I’d need to take 9 hours, being a rookie and all that, plus a large printout of tacho rules I’d been given a year previously didn’t mention anything about not taking 3 in a row…
BOSS
TRUMPET 
Thank you Malc for saying exactly what I would have said had I been here. 
manowar:
plus a large printout of tacho rules I’d been given a year previously didn’t mention anything about not taking 3 in a row…
As others have said the reason it didn’t mention it is because there is nothing wrong with it. Their analysis software is obviously pants 
Paul
here is that actual wording regarding reduced daily rest periods from the regulations.
Article 8, 4. A driver may have at most three reduced daily rest periods between any two weekly rest periods.
That’s it, nothing about number allowed in a row or any other nonsense. This sort of confusion and problem arises when people work to the IJABITANT* version of the rules instead of the real version.
*IJABITANT I’ll Just Add Bits In That Are Not There