senior50:
The op does use the term drive in his post in all fairness
Thanks so much people, invaluable information here. In my OP I stated drive; 99.9% of the time that is the case, the time taken to get loaded and out of most quarries or crusher yards is under 5 mins. At the other end, its generally a case of drive on site, tip and leave, so other work is not really applicable.
One of the reasons that lead to me asking this, was I did also drive a utilities hiab for 5 or so years. So back then driving time was never an issue, my other work was the bulk of my day - with driving time totalling no more than 2-3 hours split over the day.
So what I’m taking from the thread is my breaks are legal, yea ■■ 7-10 (approx) driving 3 hours, break 16 mins. Drive 10:16-11:45-12:15, break 31 mins. Now I have 4.5 hours driving time for the afternoons work.
So options are, as above for 9 hour driving day, yea?
OPTION A -10 hrs driving reduce my morning driving to no more than 2hrs - followed by a 45 min break, drive 4.5hrs - followed by a 45 min break, then I have 3.5hrs = 10hrs driving time?? Yea, All legal??
OPTION B - 10 hrs driving - 4.5hrs followed by a 45 min break, 4.5hrs followed by a 45 min break, then I have 1 hour driving time left; Yea legal??
Many Many thanks to everyone who has contibuted to this thread. I really like the variety of plant/tipper work, but Hiabs/Grab wagon aer nice as its simple to keep yourself legal and meet deadlines
Also if anyone can contiribute to different 10hr split driving days that would be really helpful.
Thanks again Maccy