Winseer:
Even though 2 “reduced rests” on the spin is legal, I’m going to still kick up a fuss over the safety aspect of having only 9 hours between shifts when it’s taking you 90 mins each way on the commute, leaving you 6 hours to get a meal in, head down, get up, [zb], shaved, showered, & shampooed, then back to work.
There was a time I didn’t know better to kick up this fuss:-
I only tried “double reduced” that once with a firm trying to run monday-friday 15 hour shifts with said 90 min commute for me to get there. I got to wednesday morning on the way home, and gave away the rest of the week - hallucinating in my own car driving home. If I’d carried on with the rest of the week, it pretty much looked like I was going to be expected to reduce more than the legal 3 times in one week. Fold!
Whos fault is that?? you commute 90mins each way!! most def not the company you are working for. when you basically leave your company and travel home etc thats your problem not the companys so STOP MOANING…you took the job you was offered Drivers or today i have poooded em, As limey says make way for proper drivers who want work
What a load of ■■■■.
If you lived 10 miles from work, 9hrs is not enough to get home, have food, settle down, then wake up, 3 s’s, get to work. Certainly not twice in a row.
Winseer:
… If I’d carried on with the rest of the week, it pretty much looked like I was going to be expected to reduce more than the legal 3 times in one week. Fold!
3 times between weekly rest periods, not 3 times in one week. Depending on shift pattern it is possible and legal to do 6 reduced daily rest periods in one week.
Are we talking split shifts here?
Since the longest one can work is 6 days (but 7 shifts!) before a weekly rest, I don’t see how one can reduce 3 times in 6 days or 3 times in a week and it doesn’t come out as pretty much the same thing?!
Are you telling me that:-
Monday 14:00-23:00
Tuesday 08:00-17:00
Wednesday 02:00-11:00
Wednesday 20:00-05:00
Thursday 14:00-23:00
Friday 08:00-17:00
Saturday 02:00-08:00
Weekly Rest
Saturday 11:00-Monday 14:00=54 hours
Weekly Total: 60 hours, with 12 hours per week made up of breaks & POA=48 hours average.
I don’t think you’d be expected to work THIS shift pattern on guard duty in Afghanistan - please tell me I’m right!
If THIS shift pattern is perfectly legal, then let me know the names of the firms operating thus so I can give them a wide berth!
Looks legal to me. The troops in Afghanistan would dream of working these hours!
If I had a long commute and a reduced rest, I would take it in the truck if the employer allowed it.
Where I work, the drivers who commute to Birmingham do just that if they have an early start. They don’t get paid for the “night out” but they do save the petrol cost of going home for a few hours.
90 minute drive for me to go home so on the very rare times I do have a night out at the yard I stay in the truck, reduced rest or err unreduced normal rest.
Only three?
OK, so there’s shaving, showering & shampooing, but what about the other two?
Yeah, [zb], shower, shave.
Whats all this shampooing bollox?
And here’s me getting mixed up with:
'…shag1 noun 1 a ragged mass of hair. 2 a long coarse pile or nap on fabric. 3 a type of tobacco cut into coarse shreds.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon sceacga.
shag2 noun a species of cormorant with glossy dark-green plumage, a long neck, webbed feet and an upright stance…’
