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eering firm, starting at 8 am and finishing at 5.30 pm; most of my time is Spent driving on the site of work. Is this time counted as my 60 hours or is the 60 hours counted when driving on the highway?
Also, am 1 in order to drive the firm's van or coach (for which no records are necessary) home at night and in the morning transporting men to and from work?
After my 60 hours period is completed, is it in order for me to work on site away from driving?
AUnder the new hours of work regulations,
if you spend not more than four hours per day on any day of the week driving on public roads and the remainder of your working day driving on site work ("construction, reconstruction, alteration, extension or maintenance of a building or part of a building, other fixed works or construction or civil engineering including the improvement or maintenance of a road") then you are exempt from the drivers' hours regulations for that day. If you do not drive on a public road for more than four hours on each day of the working week, then you are exempt from the hours regulations for the whole of that working week (ie the 60 hours). If, however, on any one day you do drive on the public roads for more than four hours, you must then observe the rules on every day of that working week.
Provided that driving the firm's van or coach does not mean that you drive for more than four hours on a public road in total on any day, it is quite in order to do this, but if by doing this driving you do more than four hours in the day. then all the hours regulations must be observed, le, 10 hours' driving. 11 hours on-duty, 12+ spreadover, and 60 hours only in the week.
So far as record keeping is concerned, you do not need to keep records provided you do not drive more than four hours on the road in a working day and remain within a radius of 25 miles from the vehicle's operating centre. If you exceed either of these you will need to keep records of your hours of work for the day in question.
After completing 60 hours' work in a week where this is applicable, the only work you may do on a site (not driving) is for an employer other than the employer for whom you normally drive. In other words, you must not do any other work for your main or only employer after you have done 60 hours' work in a week, but you may do work other than driving for any other employer for as long as you wish.