Hi all,
I am currently working in a warehouse but with some driving involved, some weeks it may only be 1 shift driving, others could be 3 or 4 shifts, I have been completing my tachos on a daily basis, when only warehouse work I have filled a disc out and written on the back sating warehouse work and the hours worked ect, but have been told by transport that this is unneccessary and a waste of discs? I am c orrect in doing what i,m doing or is there no need for me to fil out the tacho unless i,m driving?
cheers
You are definately correct!
The answer to this can be found in Vosas Guide to Drivers Hours Law on the Vosa website
Recording other work
Drivers must record all other work and periods of availability — including work for other employers — on all driving and non-driving days within a week where they have undertaken driving that comes within the scope of the EU rules on drivers’ hours since their last weekly rest.
For example, a driver who works in a warehouse on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and wishes to drive a vehicle within the scope of the EU rules on Thursday of the same week must complete records for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The record must be either:
written manually on a chart;
written manually on a printout from a digital tachograph;
made by using the manual input facility of a digital tachograph; or
for days where a driver has been subject to the domestic drivers’ hours rules and a record is legally required (see page 25), recorded in a domestic log book.
For the non-driving days, the record may simply show the driver’s name, the date, and the start and finish of the shift. These records must be carried on the vehicle by the driver to be produced to enforcement officers for the relevant period (see individual sections on how to make manual entries).
http://www.transportoffice.gov.uk/crt/repository/Rules%20on%20Drivers%20Hours%20and%20Tachographs%20-%20Goods%20vehcles%20in%20the%20UK%20and%20Europe.pdf
No charts need filling out for a week if you have not come under EU regs in that week which is Mon 0000 to Sun 2400
As welltin said you need to complete records for the whole week if you drive in compliance of EU regulations at any point in that week.
As ROG said you do not need to complete records for any week in which you don’t drive to EU regulations.
Someone else would say tell your transport person that he’s an idiot but I would say be tactful and tell him he’s wrong and should check the regulations 
Nothing wrong with thinking whatever you like whilst you say it though 
