Q 1 have a part-time employee who wishes me to teach
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him to drive a heavy goods nehicle. He works four nights per week, II tours per shift, for his full-time employer, for whom he does no driving at all, and that Srm is in no way connected with me. Will he wed to keep a log-book while under inrtruction? Will his regular jobfor his full-time employer have to be recorded as working hours? When I am teaching him, will my time have to be entered in the log-book as driving time or working time?
AThe person you are teaching to drive, as he is an employee of yours although only part-time, will need to keep records of his driving time, on-duty, off-duty and rest periods, if he drives under instruction for more than four hours daily or if he drives outside a radius of 25 miles of the vehicle's operating centre. If, however, during his driving lesson he neither goes outside the 25-mile radius nor spends more than four hours driving he is not required to keep any records.
There is no need for him to make any record of the time spent working for his other employer so long as he is definitely not employed by the other firm as a driver and in fact does no driving for them.
So far as you are concerned, teaching by acting as an accompanying driver cannot be counted as driving by you for the purpose of your trade or business and therefore need not be shown on a record sheet.
If, however, during the periods of instruction you were actually to drive the vehicle to demonstrate a point to your trainee then this might well be considered by the authorities to be driving in connection with your trade or business and as such would mean that you would have to observe the limitations on driving time, duty time and rest periods for that day.
Where the driving instruction is carried out after a normal day's work or at the weekend, again, if you actually drive the vehicle, then you must be careful not to exceed the maximum permitted driving and duty hours and to observe the rest period requirements.