HGV Drivers Hours And Working Time Directive Basics 

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The person(s) who came up with these rules must have been drunk.

So much to think about. The mind boggles. Surely they should simplify it so a driver can focus on driving and safety.

I'm saving this as a reference. I passed my Class 1 this February but haven't worked my first HGV job yet so all the stuff I had to remember for my theory and CPC exams has almost gone out the window so thank you for this vid. I remember that there are more rules but if this covers me then that's fantastic!

As with all laws they make them overly complicated especially when it comes to driving. It should be a lot clearer and simpler than it currently is.

Clear and concise. Should be enough for most standard drivers. Thanks Kev!

What a head bender! Been out the game for years and getting back into it. Thanks for the upload mate 👍

I'm a new pass class 2 and messed up on my interview because I didn't fully understand my driving hours, something iv taken lightly. Luckily they've given me a second chance and this video is helpful, thankyou

Great video Kev. About to do an assessment with employer for my first job so your video a big help.

Hi Kev i think this is a great video for new drivers to watch it really is keep up with the great work that you do and keep them great videos coming drive carefully and take care and stay safe my friend

Makes more sense to me now, thanks for doing this video as this is one of the most puzzling aspects of driver training in my opinion. It is not really designed for people to easily understand, I am sure they could simplify the rules for everyone.

Cheers Kev starting a job on Thursday class one and two took a few screen shots of the data you provided ,much obliged

helps a lot looking to get into driving and got my CPC tomorrow so very useful video for me thank you

Excellent video I really found this helpful as a new trucker nice one Kev 👍👍👍

Wow.,, thank you so much.. brilliantly explained 👏🏻👏🏻

Is right Kev. Respect for putting the info out there for everyone and breaking it down. Far too much to the regs in my opinion. Surely could be simplified much more so that it’s easier to adhere and understand in the first place. But what can you do. Thankfully got people like yourself to break it down for us 👍🏼

Hi Kev, I'm loving your vlogs, thank you for posting x

Thank you Kev. Found this very useful :)

thanks for the video. wish this came out a year ago when i first passed hehe:) always nice to have a recap

Many many thanks, very informative and educational.

Very helpful kevtee Thank you

Hi kev great video m8. I am going for my class 1 training in a weeks time. I am happy as well scared too at the same just because of the sheer size of class 1

Thanks @kevtee, really helpful. It's confusing me and I'm going for my class C, so bit nervous as new driver.

That was great m8 I was sitting my CPC last week and there was a lot I didn’t understand

Thanks kev cleared a couple of point up

Thanks Kev, very informative.

Thanks for the vid, I"m just about to start my HGV journey and this seems the most complicated part of the whole process.

Great vlog mate, you made it simpler than the cpc trainers i had lol. Just one thing, night worker is between 12 and 4.

Thanks Kev that's helpful, I find it all rather confusing

Thanks for this Kev, I'm doing my CPC module 2 this week and this is one of the areas that I am struggling with, thanks for the help!

Very helpful mate, well done.

...and drivers in America think the Hours Of Service are complicated. Ours is fairly simple; coming off a 34 hour rest break, we get a fresh clock. We can work 70hrs (driving and on duty not driving combined). Our dailies are, we can work 14 hours a day, but no more than 11 hours can be driving. We must take a 30 min break within the first 8 hours of starting our clock. If we take it too early, if we want to drive the max amount of hours that day, we might have to take another. We also have a bunch of exceptions for certain types of trucking. So I don’t usually log a rest break until 6 hours so I don’t have to stop again. Thanks for these videos. It’s interesting to see how other countries do it.

Thank you very much...very gooood explanation 🙏

Iv drove hgv for 5 years and when you started explaining the 24/45hr rest period, you even got me Lost AF

Cheers pal. It really helps.

Top vid!... .. keep up the great work. Joe

Excellent kevtee top man top vid👌👍

To a degree it pretty much depends on what aspect of trucking you do as certain trucking jobs will involve different aspects of the tachograph regs etc but as a rule if you work Monday - Friday etc and finish Fri afternoon and start at say 6am Monday etc and have every weekend off your weekly rest takes care of itself because you will always have had more than your weekly required rest etc Plus it gets easier when a driver knows how to read their day eg knowing before they start their shift how busy their day will be and how long certain deliveries take at certain customers etc eg getting to know which customers get drivers tipped quick and which customers keep drivers waiting etc If you allow extra time for each delivery allowing to be kept waiting etc you can plan your breaks easier instead of expecting every delivery to be a quick tip and getting frustrated when kept waiting which creates pressure and stress behind the wheel when trying to make up time etc which is where mistakes happen and infringements will add up with new drivers etc But combining the working time directive with driving time break etc preferred by most But as long as you keep an eye on both driving time and working time directive time most truck driving jobs will have a couple of deliveries before break and a couple of deliveries after break etc which makes it virtually impossible to have driven 4.5hrs within 5.5hours for working time directive break as you would have been on other work doing your checks etc for 15 mins etc so unless you have over 4.5 hours to drive to your first delivery etc you'll usually only do about 3hrs to 3.5hrs driving before you need to start your working time directive break which in this example makes sense to have a 45 min break which covers both breaks and is easier on the brain lol leaving you to relax and listen to the tunes with arm out window lol but only if you know you'll be back at depot within 4.5 hrs etc to allow for refueling vehicle and or washing vehicle and drivers debrief etc all of which in a large companies etc you will no doubt be in queues etc which you will need to have allowed time for during your day as not allowing for these duties in the yard etc can cause infringements when drivers don't allow extra time for these duties and sit looking like a lemon when having to go on break in yard to allow for other work etc Reading your day before you start your working day saves time during the day which is why you'll see drivers having a natter and a couple of coffees before they leave yard as usually they are thinking their day through eg working out how to miss busy road junctions etc which will save much more time than the 10 mins it cost drinking coffee lol Purely my opinion based on my experience with no infringements for quite some time It is always your responsibility to make your self aware of tachograph regs etc and no one else's

Do you know, this is the best drivers hours/wtd video I've seen. I'm newly qualified and I wish this video was made two months ago, very informative! :) I've mostly got the basics down now, but it's nice to know someone's made an effort to explain the bollocks EU legislation

Thanks. Im not a HGV driver but hopefully get into truck driving in the future. Its learning about all the rules confuses me.

It's been 3 years m8 since you did that blog, vlog, and I still refer back to it when going for a assessment, which I am tomo. I'm andy, the guy you met in the queue at Margam. Stay safe bud

thanks very Helpful

Hi Kev, I have started a new job driving Monday - Friday days trunking and start at 6am-2pm, so I spend a lot of time waiting to be unloaded than driving, so what I do is at around 10-30am have a 45min break, So that will wipe the slate clean till 2pm, Hope this is ok as no one has said as yet,! Cheers,

Thanks very helpful 👍

Hi Kev, great vids as always. I’ve read that a 45 min driving break will count towards your working time directive breaks, up to and over 9 hours, but you say otherwise. Whoever makes these rules needs shooting they could be so much simpler.

Thanks mate 👍

Another useful video. Ref wheel nuts question. We used split breaks on international work. Allowed us to start daily rest on ferry, drive off at other end, then park up to finish rest off. You needed to increase rest by 1 hour and there was a time limit on the movement. We used it quite a lot as many ferry crossings were shorter than the rest period. All this was a long time ago so don't know if this has changed.

Very helpful 👌

Thank you!

Nice video! Keep it up!

Sounds complicated Kev, I'll have to put a calculator in my basic kit. Thanks for the vid.

grate help thanks

very helpful video easy👏

Cheers mate doing my theory , it’s a bit confusing . But it’s slowly sinking in

I think dvla should put the viedo on there website you make it so simple and easy

Top job sir

i need to know this for a driving assessment tomorrow .. surely they do not expect a new driver to remember it all without a laminated guide in their lunch box to help them each day til it becomes cemented

Hi kev I'm trying to get my head around this my work place is Monday-Friday sat and Sunday no driver jobs 8am till about4 .

Can you do a video on how you fill in your log book and how you acknowledge how many hours you have worked

Awesome video I'm pretty sure I have a good understanding the regs I'm newly qualified so just getting to grips with them all.....For the wtd if you don't need any eu brakes could u take a 15 min just shy of 6 hrs the the following half hour 6 hrs on from the end of youre last shift or does it need to be taking by 9 hrs ?

I think the statutory minimum of 5.6 weeks holidays pa include the 8 days bank holidays (plus the minimum of 20 days pa).

So if u work up to 6 hours on wtd an u take your 15 min break that counts for a driving break aswel so the wtd break will do for both. In other words which ever time limit comes up first wtd/driving time each does for the other so one break only for both.

Very good explanation Can you help me with a question Is I start my shift 6am Drive 3 hours to the cliente and waiting 2 hours to unload During this time I put on break all time, but I believe count 45 min. And return to original place empty, drive another 3 hours and do another drive to load again for next day and finished by my shift after 4 hours after 45 min break The question is I need 15 min break again before finished my shift

thanks

The daily rest period can be reduced three times between two consecutive weekly rest periods - that means between weekly rests, not in a week. Week is counted from 00:00 Monday to 23:59 Sunday.

When you have 9 hour overnight breaks make sure you do not exceed 10 hours driving in the 24 hour period which you can do if you drive 41/2 hrs previous day next morning 41/2hrs then 45min break and drive again for more than 1 hour you will exceed 10 hrs in 24 so beware of rolling days 2nd morning have longer breaks

Hi kev I only get 4 weeks holiday a year looks like I'm in the office monday to get more holiday 😉👍

Noticed a few shitty comments😒... tell them to go bollocks. You done well on this vlog buddy and had the balls to post it👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻... I’m digging for the 36 hour rule if parked up at base and I’ve gone home. If I’m parked up at base and gone home, do I need a 24 hours off or 36 hours off?(this is on working every other Saturday)... I’m very sorry if any of this doesn’t make sense I do apologise. But hopefully you get me👍🏻.... thank you for sharing the fellow trucker, I’m still very new at this game, and it’s starting to get to me abit

This video was very helpful. Iv only been driving for just over a year. I drive a class 2 doing multi drops. I do have a question. If i worked a 12 hour shift. And dont go over my driving time. Instead of taken a 15 and a 30 min or a full 45 min break. Could i split it into 3 15 min breaks? Iv been told i can from one person and cant from another.

great video. who is excluded from directives?

Hi Kev, what do I need to do when inserting my new 2nd tachograph card for the first time. Thanks, Liam.

We can actually split the 11hrs daily break in two . 3 hrs unetrrupted bed time during the working hours , and then 9 hrs reduced break time. At the end of day .

Thanks for the advice. I'll never understand why the powers that be don't simplify it.

Great video Kev. Nice shades too. What make are they?

Night is midnight to 4am.

Night hours for HGV driver start from 00:00 to 4:00am in UK.

Never been so confused in my life

So you can work 4 14hr days Monday to Thursday which includes 4 days of at least 3 hrs poa & break a day so bringing each day down to 11hrs as long as you have an 11hour break on at least one of these day ? and then work under 13 hrs on the friday

Hi Kev, love the video :) One question about working hours.... If when you are doing "Other work" say around the yard, would you take your card out of the unit so it dosent register hours doing other work?

How do you keep track of how much driving you have done already and how much rest you have had and how many hours you have worked etc?

Hi KevGreat video, really informative, could I just tweak it a litte with the 90 hour fortnight ? The 90 hour driving rule is "any two weeks" not two consectutive weeks! Rule is Week 1 = 34 hours, Week 2 = 56 hours, week 3 must also be 34 hours. Hope you don't mind me mentioning, ta Debbie

Hi! It is right to take 15 minutes before 6 hours + 15 minutes before 9 hours and another 15 minutes after 9 hours but before end of the shift (day work)? Thank you.

hi there ,just wondering if i have to use my digital drivers card if im just shunting ?

Sitting at a bay for 4 hours is this to be logged as poa and there for not included in wtd? Thank you

Thanks for your help 💪👍👐👏🤝🚚😎😀👋🏆💕🥇🚚

I think these drivers hours digi taco is very confusion , i worked in Canada couple years ago and i found Elog system great so easy to use logging hours and off duty pre trips etc ,wish they used it in uk Europe

Thanks very good info .What is the maximum working time is allowed per day ?

what is the rest peroid if you reach of 90 hours driv time. i have reachd the max but have no idea how much rest I am needing.

I'd just like to fine tune a couple of points. You said that you can reduce your daily rest to 9hrs 3x per week and then anything after that you must take an 11hr off, whilst that is perfectly correct it can however lead to some confusion with new and even some veteran drivers alike. You shouldn't really say it as "9hrs off or 11hrs off", you should in fact phrase it as "you can work a 15hr shift 3x per week but only 13hr shifts for the rest of that week" this is because there are many drivers out there that think it is ok to work a fourth and even fifth 15hr shift as long as they then take an 11hr daily rest, but that is in fact breaking the law as you cannot fit 15 + 11 into a 24hr period that is why it can only either be a 13hr shift with 11hrs off (13+11=24) or a 15hr shift with 9hrs off (15+9=24). Secondly, Regarding the reduced weekly rest periods, they must be paid back 'within' a three week period not necessarily just at the 'end' of a three week period, the reason i bring that up is because you can in fact add on the pay back hours onto the end of any 9hr or 11 hr rest period, it doesn't have to be solely added onto a weekly rest period. So if you had 15hrs off for example twice in your 6 day working week (remembering that at least 9hrs of those need to be within the 24hr period as described in my first point) then you can remove 2x 6hrs which equals 12hrs off of the amount that you need to pay back of your reduced weekly rest hours.

Hi, with the uk no longer a part of the EU, why dont they change the hours to a more simpler rule like, 10 hrs driving, 13hr total a day, 1 hr break between the 10 driving. 11 hrs sleep/rest every time. Max of 5 day work week. Sound simpler??

Hello kevtee Can you telling me What is the working time directive average working week? What can the weekly rest period be reduced to? Pls tell me Thank you

Hi For example if I work as a van driver (under 3.5 tonnes) with a company on one night shift starting at 9:30pm and finishing at 4am, then the same day my shift starts at 4pm as a hgv driver with the same company. Would that be alright according to the daily rest period as I would have had 11 hours of rest? Also would I need to note down the working period as a van driver? I would appreciate if you could shed some light. Thanks

Thank you for video. I have question . If I started my work Monday at 3.00am and finish Friday 4.00pm(5days) my employer sold me I can have in Saturday reduced weekly rest 24h and in Sunday morning will be started next week, this is correct? He want do that because he don't have work for Saturday but for Sunday , I don't want work like that because I must calculate my weekly time like 6 periods but better is calculate from 0000 Monday to 0000 Sunday. Can employer required do weekly rest when he don't have job after 2 worked days?

over here it only counts towards a night shift if you work 4hrs or more during the 22-06 hour period.

have a question. POA... I was stuck in a parking site for over 29 hours. My boss forced me to use 24 rest. Should I have used POA instead.? what i have not told you is that the end of the particular week. My tacko stated that I only had 14 hours and 30 mins of drive and work time. What should i have. I did the maths at the 75.30mins. whilst paused in germany. Had to deliver items in the ECO zone where i needed paperwork but none present in the cab. 500 euro fine if caught. furthermore the final drive home would have taken 14 hours with no chance of pausing for traffic or accidents. 1 leave the truck and go home. 2 finish the jobs x2 delivery and run out of time due to 90 hours marker. I am at a los please reply back.

Hi is weekly rest in blocks of 24 hrs or any rested hours add after 24hrs like 30 or 38hrs?

Hi, thanks for valuable video. Just a question , I came across this question in one of the assessment tests , it's regarding daily rest. Have you ever heard anything about "split daily rest"? I know we can reduce daily rest to to nine hours three times a week but this must be something else which did not ring a bell o me ! If you know anything about this "split daily rest" I like to learn too, thanks.

Hi Kev. Just a quick question. If I were to start work at 3:30am and work throughout the day, would I still be subjected to the 10 night working limit?

if your 40 minutes from home can you run on and use the ferry time rule or not. asking for a friend

I added this to a comment further down, then I thought it may be better posting it directly. Many people don’t understand how holiday accrues or how pay is calculated or that overtime or night rate applies to holiday pay. Holiday is pro rata this means it is worked out by portions of the full time position: If over an average of 12 weeks (or by common practice) you work 5 days at 9 hours you will be entitled to 5.6 weeks at 9 hours per day (5 days worked x9 hours per day x5 whole weeks =225 hours Plus odd 0.6 week which is 0.6x 45 = 27 hours total yearly holiday is 252 hours. If you work 1 day per week you will have a yearly total of 5.6 days holiday this being the same pro rata as the full time worker, both will still have 5.6 weeks holiday. Many companies will try to avoid the common practice rule, this is because you may well be entitled to more holiday. For example you are contracted to work 40 hours per week at a flat rate (remember holiday taken over enhanced payment hours attracts enhanced payment holiday). So you expect 40 hours per week holiday. Let’s say you work 45 hours every week then you will be entitled to 45 hours holiday per week by common practice. If on the other hand you work 35 hours every week perhaps you may not wish to mention common practice!