Q I hold bode an hgv and a psv driving licence.
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I am employed as an hgv driver but during the Christmas holidays I have been offered a driving job with a bus company. It involves taking coach parties on Christmas Day and Boxing Day to a hospital and, including time waiting for some of my party to visit relatives, I shall be on duty about 12 hours each day. How should my bus-company employer pay me for such work and what is my position wizen I resume my ordinary job on December 27.
A Presumably you have worked for the bus organization on previous occasions. if so, then you should expect not less than double the normal payment. If you have not, you should certainly ask what is the normal rate of pay for the company's regular drivers and whether your remuneration will be double that normal rate for the hours you will work on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. However, your working day of .12 hours will be justified only if you are allowed a period off duty not less than the time by which your working day exceeds
11 hours. In other words, you must have al least one hour completely off-duty during the working day, in this case (Sectior 96(3b) of the Transport Act 1968).
Section 96(4b) of the Act provides for E driver of a passenger vehicle to be entitle( to take less than 11 hours but not less that 94 hours rest between successive workinf days on one occasion each week, though i the duty periods on each day do not exceec
12 hours you will be able to take a res period between them in excess of 11 hours.
However, Section 96(5) states that ; driver shall not be on duty in any workim week for periods amounting in the aggregat to more than 60 hours. This leaves only 3( hours of duty during which you will be abt to work for your regular employe' Remember, too, that a driver who drives goods vehicle for one employer and passenger vehicle for another must recon his passenger vehicle driving in the recor book which has been issued to him by hi goods vehicle employer. (Regulation 3, Th Drivers' Hours (Goods Vehicles) (Keepin of Records) Regulations 1970.)