Article 8.8 only refurs to daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base - but what about a regular weekly rest period - can you take this in your cab ?
According to the letter of the law, you can’t, although nobody seems to enforce this.
You could pitch a tent next to your cab and take a 45 hour rest in that. 
Flaming hell - i just lost a tenner !
I thought you could reduce in the truck, but not take a 45… legally speaking of course.
Saaamon:
I thought you could reduce in the truck, but not take a 45… legally speaking of course.
i’m really not sure on this, but thought/think, you can maybe 2 weekly rests in the truck when away, but come the 3rd, it has to be taken away from the vehicle, and if any of the previous two were reduced weekly rests, this time had to be added aswell.
i’m probably wrong.
Can’t have two consecutive reduced rests any more, either at base or when away.
and there was me saying how rubbish the dcpc would be 
think i need a refresher on hours before i go back to working away next year.
Harry Monk:
Can’t have two consecutive reduced rests any more, either at base or when away.
Oh yes you can! (well it is pantomime season)
A regular 45 weekly rest cannot be taken in a vehicle when away from base. Many do and in the UK I don’t think this is enforced but I have been told many tales of it being enforced abroad.
shep532:
A regular 45 weekly rest cannot be taken in a vehicle when away from base.
How do you know this?
Mike-C:
shep532:
A regular 45 weekly rest cannot be taken in a vehicle when away from base.How do you know this?
My Dad told me.
Mike-C:
shep532:
A regular 45 weekly rest cannot be taken in a vehicle when away from base.How do you know this?
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=88273&p=1243845&hilit=weekly+rest+in+lorry#p1243845
never mind 
How do you find your old posts ? it would have saved me a tenner if i had !
shep532:
Mike-C:
shep532:
A regular 45 weekly rest cannot be taken in a vehicle when away from base.How do you know this?
My Dad told me.
Hmmm. If your Dads Harry Monk ?!!!
According to the letter of the law, you can’t,
There is no letter of the law to say you can’t.
although nobody seems to enforce this.
There could be a reason for this. 
I think there’s an assumption that on a regular weekly rest you will go home. It says no where that you have to !!!
I could be wrong. Its been known before
Harry Monk:
Can’t have two consecutive reduced rests any more, either at base or when away.
Of course you can.
You can have as many reduced weekly rests in a row as you like as long as you make sure you have a full weekly rest in every second week.
Paul
Jenson Button:
How do you find your old posts ? it would have saved me a tenner if i had !
I’d tell ya but you won’t remember
Jenson Button:
How do you find your old posts ? it would have saved me a tenner if i had !
Try the advanced search facility in the top right of this page
Mike-C:
Jenson Button:
How do you find your old posts ? it would have saved me a tenner if i had !I’d tell ya but you won’t remember
What did i ask ?
Who am i ?
Where am I?
Who are you ?
Mike-C:
According to the letter of the law, you can’t,
There is no letter of the law to say you can’t.
Yes there is.
EC561/2006:
8. Where a driver chooses to do this, daily rest periods and
reduced weekly rest periods away from base may be taken in a
vehicle, as long as it has suitable sleeping facilities for each
driver and the vehicle is stationary.
As you can see above the regulations allow you to take daily and reduced weekly rest periods away from base in a vehicle. The very fact that it specifices “reduced weekly rests” instead of simply saying “weekly rests” tells us that regular weekly rests away from base in a vehicle are not technically legal.
The daft thing about this is that in the middle of winter when it’s minus-something outside, you’re legally allowed to take a regular weekly rest in a tent pitched next to your truck but if you spend it in the nice warm comfy truck you’re breaking the law.
Of course nobody is ever going to get done for it in the real world.
Paul