Are drivers of heavy goods vehicles, used for display and demonstration purposes, required to keep drivers' records?
22nd July 1977, Page 51
22nd July 1977
Page 51
Page 51, 22nd July 1977
— Are drivers of heavy goods vehicles, used for display and demonstration purposes, required to keep drivers' records?
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We often send vehicles to exhibitions and sirniler functions which might involve drivers taking vehicles for long distances. So far, we have not asked them to complete logsheets, but it has been suggested that we ought to AThere is no exemption from record-keeping for drivers of demonstration vehicles or vehicles being driven to shows contained in the Drivers Hours (Keeping of Records) Regulations 1976 apart from the general exemption in Regulation 12. Therefore, if the driver of such a vehicle drives for more than four hours in one day and takes the vehicle outside a radius of 25 miles from its base, he must complete a logsheet for that day.