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Paul l Arthurton
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Owner Paul Arthurton Transport Norfolk Arthurton believes in principle that rules on working time should apply across the
induStry or not at all.
But he too can see where interpretation, diffidult enough when it comes to employed staff could become extremely ambiguous when applied to owner-drivers.
"What happens when he goes home at the weekend and starts doing his paperwork?
If he gets up on a Sunday morning, makes
him elf a bacon sandwich and gets stuck into is invoices, that's work. But most drivers
WOLI d see it as their own time."
A other foolish scenario, he adds, is that
suc a driver could choose to wash his car
on a Sunday morning. But If he washed down his lorry, instead, would that be classed as eating into his 48 hours?
"You can see how it would be virtually impossible to police," he says.