Reduced weekly rest

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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If you reduce your weekly rest to, for example 40 hours, do you just need to compensate for the 5 hour reduction.

Wayne.

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Wayne:
If you reduce your weekly rest to, for example 40 hours, do you just need to compensate for the 5 hour reduction.

Wayne.

Hi Wayne, this should help.

REGULATION (EC) No 561/2006

Article 4 (h)
‘weekly rest period’ means the weekly period during which a driver may freely dispose of his time and covers a ‘regular weekly rest period’ and a ‘reduced weekly rest period’:

– ‘regular weekly rest period’ means any period of rest of at least 45 hours,
– ‘reduced weekly rest period’ means any period of rest of less than 45 hours, which may, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 8(6), be shortened to a minimum of 24 consecutive hours;

Here’s Article 8(6) mentioned above:

Article 8(6)
In any two consecutive weeks a driver shall take at least:
– two regular weekly rest periods, or
– one regular weekly rest period and one reduced weekly rest period of at least 24 hours. However, the reduction shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in question.