Working 7 days.

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Just to add, as far as I’m aware, if you’ve put a tacho in that week, then your running under EC hours for the rest of it :wink:.

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dont worry lads. im sure your local friendly government will soon put a stop to it. they are good at messing around with things. if it upsets people, all the better :unamused:

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Liberace:
Just to add, as far as I’m aware, if you’ve put a tacho in that week, then your running under EC hours for the rest of it :wink:.

Are you sure? I’m looking at a copy of the rules and it says you can do ‘mixed’ driving hours ie swap between rules, or am I misunderstanding it :confused:

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You can swap to EC and back to domestic again in the same week, however, if one of the days you go onto EC then you must have a weekly rest in that week.

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Gurner:
You can swap to EC and back to domestic again in the same week, however, if one of the days you go onto EC then you must have a weekly rest in that week.

Makes sense

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mrpj:
I’ll try to find a link detailing all the exemptions

All the exemptions are listed here.

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Coffeeholic:

mrpj:
I’ll try to find a link detailing all the exemptions

All the exemptions are listed here.

Thanks for that :slight_smile:

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I passed my C+E Tuesday and intend to do agency work if I can at weekends for the time being to get some experience while still at my current job. However, at the moment I drive a 7.5t for an average of about 2hrs a day the rest of the day is spent putting marquees up at peoples houses. Would what I work during the week affect what I can do on agency at the weekend with regard to the WTD as in the summer the hours can be up to 60-65 p/week including lunch and breaks etc… Would not having PoA be a problem as at the moment I just drive(getting to someones house) other work(putting marquee up) break(having a coffee)■■
Sorry Ive gone on abit but I aint got a clue.
Thanks :slight_smile:

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Being quite new to this myself , i would continue in your week job and do the agency at the weekend but keep both seperate. I would tell the agency nothing about the week job and vice versa. Just dont carry your weeks tachos with you on the weekend and again vice versa. It might be worth listening to some of the old hands 1st though. I know people who agency hop though and they make a fortune.

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move along nothing to see here :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :exclamation:

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I’m not sure whether what you’re suggesting is OK w.r.t. the WTD; however, it’s very illegal w.r.t. drivers’ hours. You can only work six days in a row, and you must observe the weekly break requirement.

Basically, if you work 9-5 Monday-Friday, you can only work one day per weekend, you can’t work Sunday one weekend then Saturday the next, and you probably have to take every fourth weekend off completely as compensation for your reduced rest on the other 3 weekends.

As for using two sets of tachos, if you get stopped on the weekend, do you really think the VOSA person is going to believe that you only work two days a week? What will you say when they ask what you do during the rest of the week?

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Firstly welcome to TNUK uvox82.
Secondly please do not listen to any advice that suggests anything that advises braking the tacho rules.
Several years ago I did some Tacho Analysis training & one thing became apparent very quickly, not only do most drivers not think before they set out to fiddle the system, those that do can very, very rarely come up with something that has not been come up with hundreds of times before.
The Police & Vosa are not fools, they know what they are looking for & how to get the information they want.