All work to be on tachograph charts
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• The High Court has ruled that drivers must record all periods of work—including overtime—on tachograph charts.
The court also said a record of all types of work must be made even when there is no intention of starting driving again until the following day.
The Department of Transport had appealed against a decision by Truro magistrates to dismiss a charge brought against a lorry driver of failing to make entries on a tachograph chart.
The High Court was told that the driver did not record on his tachograph chart the overtime he had worked in his employer's yard after having finished driving, Allowing the appeal, Lord Justice Henry said that Article 15 (3) of the EC Regulation made provision for recording not only actual driving time hut all other periods of work.
Working in an employer's yard should be recorded if it is part of the normal working period.
It was not sensible to say that someone working overtime is free to dispose of his time, said the judge.