I’ve had a search but can’t find a clear definitive answer, so who better to ask than the trucknet collective.
If a driver drives a van (non tacho) for a few hours in the morning, are those hours then taken into account if he then drives a truck later on that day? Or is it that any non tacho recorded driving is considered other work and he is then able to use the full driving hours?
Is there any difference if he only drives a van on one day then drives trucks the rest of the week?
cupidstunt:
I’ve had a search but can’t find a clear definitive answer, so who better to ask than the trucknet collective.If a driver drives a van (non tacho) for a few hours in the morning, are those hours then taken into account if he then drives a truck later on that day? Or is it that any non tacho recorded driving is considered other work and he is then able to use the full driving hours?
Is there any difference if he only drives a van on one day then drives trucks the rest of the week?
Technically the time spent driving a van comes under GB domestic regs, if you drive under both EU and GB domestic regs in a shift, then the driving under EU counts towards the total for GB domestic too, whilst the times spent driving under GB domestic just counts as driving for GB domestic and is other work for EU regs.
GB domestic has a limit of 10 hours driving in a 24 hour period, along with 11 hours of driving + other work.
You have to obey both sets of regs
So if you drive for 2 hour in a van that would leave you 8 hours in a truck as the truck driving would count towards the GB domestic total, of 10 hours max
Of course you should manually enter this other work when you get into the truck
In reality it’d think the vast majority wouldn’t give it a second thought and I think you’d be very unlikely to get busted, especially with the van driving 1st, more open if you had 10 hours on your driver’s card and stopped driving the van back, but still think extremely unlikely to get busted for it
driven under GB domestic for 20 years and if we drive the van on the same day as the truck we count it against other work this is because it does not need a operators licence so does not counts towards driving hours 10 on domestic but counts towards daily work limit of 11 hours duty on domestic.
When I was a boy van driver, it was keep going till your tired, have a sleep and crack on again, repeat and continue.
Know of a guy, had a van and trailer, so on tacho. Ran to manchester, on tacho. Did the delivery, dropped the trailer, then went to Scotland off trailer. Returned back to the trailer 10 hours later, clipped in on and drove home showing 10 hrs break in tacho.