Hi all…
As I work on a 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off roster on a boat, I have decided to do my Class C so that I can utilise my time off and earn some extra dough driving.
I average approximately 40 hours a week on the boat (80 ish hours for the fortnight on, roughly).
My Q is… Can I do say, Mon-Friday driving (obviously watching my hours) for my fortnight off from boat, and then go back into my 2 weeks on boat, and so on?
If I am limited to what driving hours I can do, please can someone elaborate to how much driving hours I can do? I get all the driving hours if I’m to be a full time driver, but it is a slightly grey area for me to get me head around mixing in a second job.
Any advise/experience on the matter would be great…
L4Y3R:
Hi all…
As I work on a 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off roster on a boat, I have decided to do my Class C so that I can utilise my time off and earn some extra dough driving.
I average approximately 40 hours a week on the boat (80 ish hours for the fortnight on, roughly).
My Q is… Can I do say, Mon-Friday driving (obviously watching my hours) for my fortnight off from boat, and then go back into my 2 weeks on boat, and so on?
If I am limited to what driving hours I can do, please can someone elaborate to how much driving hours I can do? I get all the driving hours if I’m to be a full time driver, but it is a slightly grey area for me to get me head around mixing in a second job.
As has been said you will need a weekly rest period for any week that you do some driving in-scope of EU regulations, other than that there’s nothing to stop you driving in-scope of EU regulations in your 2 weeks off the boat.
As you won’t be doing your usual job in the same weeks that you’re driving in-scope of EU regulations the normal driving/working limits apply.
Driving
Maximum 9 hours driving between daily rest periods.
Maximum driving between daily rest periods can be extended to 10 hours twice a week.
Maximum 56 hours driving per week.
Maximum 90 hours driving in any 2 consecutive weeks.
Daily Rest
Must have a daily rest period of at-least 11 hours within the 24 hour period from the start of the shift (maximum 13 hour shift).
The daily rest period can be reduced to 9 hours 3 times between 2 weekly rest periods (maximum 15 hour shift).
Reduced daily rest periods do not have to be compensated for.
A regular daily rest period can be taken in two parts, the first part can be taken at any time and must be at-least 3 consecutive hours, the second part must be at-least 9 consecutive hours and must be completed within 24 hours from the start of the shift (maximum 15 hour shift).
Any part of a rest period that does not fall within the period of 24 hours from the start of the shift will not count towards the daily rest period
For instance if you start at 06:00 and finish work at 19:15 then have 11 hours rest until 06:15 it will count as a reduced daily rest period, from the end of the shift at 19:15 to 06:00 (24 hours from the start of the shift) is only 10¾ hours.
So even though you’ve had 11 hours rest it’s a reduced daily rest period because only 10¾ hours of it was inside the 24 hour period from the start of the shift at 06:00.
Weekly Rest
Must have a weekly rest period of at-least 45 hours in a week.
Weekly rest period can be reduced to no less than 24 hours-
In any two consecutive weeks you must have at-least 1 regular 45 hour weekly rest period and 1 reduced weekly rest period.
Compensation for reduced weekly rest periods must be paid back en block no later than the end of the third week following the week in which the reduced weekly rest period was taken.
