Cl One of my drivers attended Nuneaton heat of the Driver
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of the Year Competition where he was asked: what is the minimum height of a tail board? Could you quote the relevant legislation?
If I travel from Kendal to Bowness which is eight miles and I stay in Bowness till 12 noon, that is 8.30 till 12.00, and I move from hotel to hotel deliveries which take three minutes at each, do I show "loading" from 8.30 to 12.00? Each division represents a quarter of an hour on the EEC log. If I do not drive outside a 25-mile radius do I need a log book at all?
AYour driver was asked to say what was the recommended minimum height for a headboard (not a tailboard) and this is recommended and not statutory.
So far as your second question is concerned, British drivers' records regulations exempt from record keeping, drivers who, in any working day, do not drive heavy goods vehicles for more than four hours and not outside a 25 mile radius from the vehicle's base (Regulation 12 (2) Drivers' Hours (Keeping of Records) Regulations 1976).
The DoE has told us that, for your particular purpose, you should draw the horizontal line through the "drivingmode. At the end of the day you should estimate the amount of driving time you have incurred and enter this in box 13. You should do the same for "other work" and enter this in box 14.
You should then explain in box 16 that you have been engaged on short delivery runs between the hours specified.