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6th February 1976
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representative from a printer's firm called recently and offered to sell me the new EEC-type log sheets. I was under the impression that these were, like the present log books, only for lorries, but he said buses and coaches were also included. If so, do we still need a work ticket as at present, as the details required are quite different? What are the hours and rest period for a psv driver under EEC Regulations for a driver in the UK only?

A There are two services which need to be considered for record-keeping purposes. First, regular services will not require the kind of record keeping prescribed under Regulation 543/69 of the European Economic Community. Regular services are services which provide for the carriage of passengers at specified intervals along specified routes, passengers being taken up and set down at predetermined stopping places.

Regular (presumably "unscheduled") services will, however, cause the drivers and other crew members of the vehicle to keep records.

Now as to the form of those records, this will be fulfilled by the fitting of tachographs on vehicles used on unscheduled services and the tacho disc will be sufficient record of driver's and crew member's hours of work.

The work ticket will still be necessary for both types of service, however, even when tachographs become obligatory.

Till then, the work ticket will suffice to represent records of hours of work; manually compiled logbooks will not be required by passenger vehicle operators.

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