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  On 05/08/2023 at 20:57, boboneleg said:

I'm sure that would be illegal here as well, I suspect that they don't have tachographs fitted or ignore them  ?

I'm not au fait with current drivers hours in UK but I'm certain you couldn't do that here.

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There might be some electronic wizardry going on … along with the hours spent on soft offroad terrain. His Volvo is looking a lot like my GS right now 

 

The main point is that there’s no neighbour to bbq a couple of seabass with :classic_ninja:

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Appart from having no neighbours to have a fish bbq tomorrow, I have just agreed to go have coffee with a recently motoryclist friend at 9am tomorrow, on a heatwave, with no fish bbq to fall back on afterwards. I could take the old BMW car but that has as much air conditioning as my bike.

I’m sat outside going into the second bottle of wine too, this doesn’t help things for tomorrow! What can one do except emphasize even potential events?

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The car decided not to cooperate this morning (after starting normally late yesterday afternoon)......so it was more of this!

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The wife didn't fall asleep today.....mainly because I went over a speed bump a bit too quick and it hurt her back.

So I'm in the shit again!

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  On 05/08/2023 at 20:57, boboneleg said:

I'm sure that would be illegal here as well, I suspect that they don't have tachographs fitted or ignore them  ?

I'm not au fait with current drivers hours in UK but I'm certain you couldn't do that here.

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No you definitely couldn't get away with that here.

Over here it's a 45 min break after every 4 ½ hours of driving but if you don't drive the full 4 ½ hours you need to have taken a 15 min break within 6 hours of starting your shift.

You can drive up to 10 hours twice a week and reduce your rest periods from 11 hours to 9 hours no more than 3 times in a week.

You can't work 7 days a week either due to the 90 hour driving limit spread out over a 2 week period so that means you can only work 6 days 1 week and 5 the following week but you also need to take in to account the 48 hour rest period between the 2 week working periods. 

So I'd guess they aren't running on tacho or if they are they don't give a fuck what it says and do as they please

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  On 06/08/2023 at 08:49, XTreme said:

The car decided not to cooperate this morning (after starting normally late yesterday afternoon)......so it was more of this!

20230806_095823-min.jpg.6fbe7280351444b8d9c264b124255477.jpg

The wife didn't fall asleep today.....mainly because I went over a speed bump a bit too quick and it hurt her back.

So I'm in the shit again!

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Well what the fuck you go and do that for 

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  On 06/08/2023 at 08:53, busabeast said:

No you definitely couldn't get away with that here.

Over here it's a 45 min break after every 4 ½ hours of driving but if you don't drive the full 4 ½ hours you need to have taken a 15 min break within 6 hours of starting your shift.

You can drive up to 10 hours twice a week and reduce your rest periods from 11 hours to 9 hours no more than 3 times in a week.

You can't work 7 days a week either due to the 90 hour driving limit spread out over a 2 week period so that means you can only work 6 days 1 week and 5 the following week but you also need to take in to account the 48 hour rest period between the 2 week working periods. 

So I'd guess they aren't running on tacho or if they are they don't give a fuck what it says and do as they please

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Depends what the penalties are doesn’t it, it’s probably well worth the risk of a fine for a the money he’ll make. 

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  On 06/08/2023 at 09:05, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Depends what the penalties are doesn’t it, it’s probably well worth the risk of a fine for a the money he’ll make. 

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Over here the risk definitely wouldn't be worth the penalty, I've known a few to be hauled in front of the traffic commissioner for relatively minor things so unless I was running without a tacho I wouldn't be doing it 

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  On 06/08/2023 at 09:33, busabeast said:

Over here the risk definitely wouldn't be worth the penalty, I've known a few to be hauled in front of the traffic commissioner for relatively minor things so unless I was running without a tacho I wouldn't be doing it 

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Yer it’s taken very seriously in this country. And honestly I think rightly so because overworked lorry drivers are not safe. The working times directive protects people from unscrupulous employers and protects the public against overworked lorry drivers. 

Who hasn’t watched a lorry very slowly veer over the rumble strip on a motorway? And cars for that matter but thats a different story. 

Falling asleep at the wheel is an horribly common occurrence.

I remember when they introduced tachographs and my Dad being very unhappy about it, he did a complete 180 on that when they showed he was their best driver and that they were no longer strong armed into taking another load. 

 

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  On 06/08/2023 at 13:16, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Yer it’s taken very seriously in this country. And honestly I think rightly so because overworked lorry drivers are not safe. The working times directive protects people from unscrupulous employers and protects the public against overworked lorry drivers. 

Who hasn’t watched a lorry very slowly veer over the rumble strip on a motorway? And cars for that matter but thats a different story. 

Falling asleep at the wheel is an horribly common occurrence.

I remember when they introduced tachographs and my Dad being very unhappy about it, he did a complete 180 on that when they showed he was their best driver and that they were no longer strong armed into taking another load. 

 

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it  aint falling asleep that makes em veer over the rumble strip ... its  the prozzie they picked up at the truck stop blowing em off

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Went out in the old bmw car today, to have a coffee and a chat with a friend by the cool riverside. I went on the car as it's too hot to bother taking the bike, I´m just a casual as there were plenty of people suffering on bikes. Someone forgot the heating turned on outside and it's gone over 40ºC, so I spent the rest of the day enjoying a very quiet countryside from inside the house. It was not windy earlier and I've never been anywhere so quiet during the daytime, not even in Morocco. 

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