Re: Recovering hgv drivers who are out of hours
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:15 pm
hir wrote:ROG wrote:This is the actual EU LAW ......
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex ... 013:EN:PDF
Article 9
2. Any time spent travelling to a location to take charge of a
vehicle falling within the scope of this Regulation, or to return
from that location, when the vehicle is neither at the driver's
home nor at the employer's operational centre where the
driver is normally based, shall not be counted as a rest or
break unless the driver is on a ferry or train and has access to a
bunk or couchette.
This is fascinating stuff, no, really.
Is the legislation saying that a driver, in the circumstances cited by the OP, could not get a train home unless he had access to a bunk or couchette on that homeward bound train? An unlikely scenario given the state of Britain's railways! Am I completely missing the point or is the law a complete ass; maybe it's just me that's being an ass?
No, I think it's saying that the trip home by train can't count as "rest" unless they have access to a bunk/couchette - ie they still have to get some rest at home before they can drive again.