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A few Questions on Tachographs

  • 29-01-2025 10:24AM
    #1
    7sus4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭


    So in the place I work it's a 10 hour shift which includes a 1.5 hour break. But sometimes I'll be a spare driver for the day in case someone doesn't show up. So lets say after 5 hours hanging around a driver doesn't show up… well they'll want me to cover that shift, which would then make my shift 15 hours. Now I could refuse if I'd work the next day as the minimum rest time is 9 hours. But what if I'd a rest day the next day? In that case it would be fine on the tachograph card but what about EU employment law? I assume I wouldn't be on Irish employment law in this case? With Irish law I think it's 12 hours minimum for a shift duration?

    Other question is that it happened a few weeks ago during the snow, that I was over the 4.5 hours with a bus full of passengers. The drive time alarm went off when on the motorway and there was no where to pull over. I'd just passed the last lay-by before the city. Now I probably wouldn't have stopped there anyway. It would be awkward stopping for a 15 minute break with a full bus of passengers on board, and there'd have been no where for me to lie down! But is that what you're supposed to do by right? In general the other drivers (and the rep) just say "drive on and fill out the reason for the infringement later on"?

    In my case I'd no tachograph training with my current company. My previous company only showed how to set up "out of scope" as I didn't do long distance. Another more credible rep said that if you write that you haven't been trained on tachographs for the infringement you sign, that the company is then obliged to train you! Is that true??

    Thanks

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  • #2
    donkey balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    You should be shown how to operate the digi card while doing one of the CPC courses along with drivers hours etc.Anyway you are hanging around for 5hrs so thats known as POA (Period of Available) So you're duty time starts just say at 0500hrs even though you are sitting around waiting on something to do. You are still working.

    So you end up jumping into the bus at 1000hrs (5 hrs later) and insert the digi card, There is an option for entering in manually any other work you have done prior to driving off. The safest bet would be to delay the departure time and take a 45 min.All of this is in CPC module 4.



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