tacho law

ASK THE EXPERTS SAFETY, LAW AND WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE FORUM (INTE
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In the week im on tacho, but the company i work for has got a new contract pulling medical scanner machines and these come under tacho exempt.

Q1- will this still be covered under working time directive?

Q2-can i driver weekends for this contract without it affecting my weekly rest?

Thanks

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Night Owl:
In the week im on tacho, but the company i work for has got a new contract pulling medical scanner machines and these come under tacho exempt.

Q1- will this still be covered under working time directive?

Yes, it would count toward your 60 hour maximum/48 hour average.

Night Owl:
Q2-can i driver weekends for this contract without it affecting my weekly rest?

No. It may be tacho exempt, I don’t know, but it would still count as Other Work and it would affect weekly your rest period.

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Q1 - I think YES
Q2 - I think NO

but i’m not the expert - i’m sure one wil be along soon :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

EDIT - one was :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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ROG:
but i’m not the expert - i’m sure one wil be along soon :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Soon? What do you mean soon slowcoach? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

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Coffeeholic:

ROG:
but i’m not the expert - i’m sure one wil be along soon :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Soon? What do you mean soon slowcoach? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

you only beat me by seconds :laughing: :laughing: - the post times are the same :unamused: :unamused:

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ROG:

Coffeeholic:

ROG:
but i’m not the expert - i’m sure one wil be along soon :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Soon? What do you mean soon slowcoach? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

you only beat me by seconds :laughing: :laughing: - the post times are the same :unamused: :unamused:

There is no shame in coming second, or last in this case, ROG. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :smiley:

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Coffeeholic:

ROG:

Coffeeholic:

ROG:
but i’m not the expert - i’m sure one wil be along soon :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Soon? What do you mean soon slowcoach? :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

you only beat me by seconds :laughing: :laughing: - the post times are the same :unamused: :unamused:

There is no shame in coming second, or last in this case, ROG. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :smiley:

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
:laughing:

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thanks guys

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Can someone explain about UTC and the working time directive.

So if I cannot start between 00.01 to 04.00 without becoming a night worker.

Is this UTC time? Local time or the time on my clock in the house

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Wheel Nut:
Can someone explain about UTC and the working time directive.

So if I cannot start between 00.01 to 04.00 without becoming a night worker.

Is this UTC time? Local time or the time on my clock in the house

If in Uk it would be BST (the time now) or GMT + 1 ( same thing)

Coffeeholic did another post on this digi time thing and although the digi clock says one thing, it goes on the actual time now - the digi cannot be messed with regards the time settings but if stopped by VOSA etc, it wil go on REAL TIME - if digi on GMT they will just add 1 hour to it - does that make sense :question:

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Wheel Nut:
Can someone explain about UTC and the working time directive.

So if I cannot start between 00.01 to 04.00 without becoming a night worker.

Is this UTC time? Local time or the time on my clock in the house

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), so we’re currently 1 hour in front of UTC time.

For the WTD and all other regulations whilst in the UK we work to UK time, curently GMT+1 hour, in other words the clock in the house.

By the way, night time for goods vehicles in the UK is 00:00 to 04:00 and for passenger vehicles night time is 01:00 to 05:00.

edit : When making manual entries on digital tachographs, the manual entry times should be made in UTC time not necessarily the current local time.

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can I remove the bulletproof vest now :question: :question:

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To add to my previous post where I said we work to the time in the UK, we do work to local time but when making manual entries on digital tachographs, the manual entry times should be made in UTC time, as this is the time (UTC) that the digital tachograph uses.

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ROG:
can I remove the bulletproof vest now :question: :question:

I think you’ll be safe now, but you never know :wink:

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ROG:
can I remove the bulletproof vest now :question: :question:

If you like, but I always aim for your head anyway. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :smiley:

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Coffeeholic:

ROG:
can I remove the bulletproof vest now :question: :question:

If you like, but I always aim for your head anyway. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :smiley:

I wonder if diving helmets are bulletproof :exclamation: :question:

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In this case in question I was in France and not starting work but finishing work.

My Tacho is on UTC showing 23.30. my clock at home said 00.30 and local time was 01.30. Its a uk registered truck.

Come on Neil, because I am not explaining myself very well except to say I was shot down in flames when i mentioned that I could be classed as a night worker because of this :stuck_out_tongue:

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Simple, you finished work at 00:30 so you could be classed as a night worker. You go by the time in your home country, if you started work at 09:30 in the UK it would be a 15 hour shift, not 16 hours because the local time is now 01:30.