These vehicles are constructed or adapted for use as mobile medical units for health screening, testing or treatment, such as mobile chest x-ray units. Specialised breakdown vehicles operating within a 100 km radius of their base training related to obtaining/retaining a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) where the training is at the request or instigation of an employer. Driver CPC training can only be undertaken during rest periods if the driver is attending voluntarily and not at the request of the employer

The following diagram is an example of how the driver’s duties might be organised in compliance with the rules on weekly rest, whereby one reduced weekly rest period may be taken in any period of two consecutive weeks. Specialised vehicles transporting circus or funfair equipment can also use this derogation for attending carnivals and festivals.

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a suspension of the requirement to take a weekly rest period at the end of the six 24 hour periods from the previous weekly rest period when the driver commences their driving as a reservist or as an instructor in the cadet corps This is an image of desperation, as the speaker’s mother desperately fights to keep their bond intact as he ventures still further away from her. A suspenseful tone is created due to the uncertainty of whether their relationship will survive. It is permitted for a driver to interrupt these reduced EU weekly rest periods by a ferry or train journey as long as the whole of the rest period is taken outside the employer’s country of establishment and the country of the drivers’ place of residence. drivers must not attend any annual camp training that takes place over the weekend that immediately follows a weekend training session that the driver has attended Where the above conditions are complied with then the multi-manning concession may be used – that is each driver must have a daily rest period of at least 9 consecutive hours but they may do so within the 30-hour period that starts at the end of the last daily or weekly rest period (rather than the normal 24 hour period). Organising drivers’ duties in such a fashion enables a crew’s duties to be spread over 21 hours.

For the purpose of this derogation international transport is when a driver takes two consecutive reduced weekly rest periods outside the UK and the driver’s country of residenceA driver ‘wipes the slate clean’ if they take a 45 minute break (or qualifying breaks totalling 45 minutes before or at the end of a 4.5 hour driving period. This means that the next 4.5 hour driving period begins with the completion of that qualifying break, and in assessing break requirements for the new 4.5 hour period, no reference is to be made to driving time accumulated before this point. For example: There have been a number of significant court rulings from the European Court of Justice and British courts dealing with this exemption. Common themes have included a direct and close involvement in the exempt activity; the principle of a general service in the public interest; and the limited and secondary nature of the transport activity. Sewerage, flood protection, water, gas and electricity maintenance services This is an example of how the duties of a two-man crew could be organised to take maximum advantage of multi-manning daily rest concession: In some cases it may be necessary to refer to case law for definitive interpretations. Exemptions Vehicles not capable of exceeding 40 km/ h

Carrying materials, equipment or machinery would apply to tradesmen such as electricians or builders carrying tools or materials for their own use. A court case clarified that the terms ‘material or equipment’ covers not only tools and instruments, but also goods which are required for the performance of the work involved in the main activity of the driver.Any regular daily rest period that is interrupted must be completed within the 24-hour period (if single manned). The 24-hour period commences at the point of starting duty following the end of the previous rest period, whether that previous rest period is a daily or a weekly rest period, as shown in this diagram: Drivers undertaking international carriage of goods under EU rules may take two consecutive reduced weekly rest periods provided that, in any four consecutive fixed weeks, at least four weekly rest periods are taken, of which at least two are regular weekly rest periods.

A break is any period during which a driver may not carry out any driving or any other work and which is used exclusively for recuperation. A break may be taken in a moving vehicle, provided no other work is undertaken.A 1995 judgment by the European Court of Justice provides a useful guide to how this provision should be interpreted. It can apply only in cases where it unexpectedly becomes impossible to comply with the rules on drivers’ hours during the course of a journey. In other words, planned breaches of the rules are not allowed. This means that when an unforeseen event occurs, it would be for the driver to decide whether it is necessary to depart from the rules. In doing so, a driver would have to take into account the need to ensure road safety in the process (eg when driving a vehicle carrying an abnormal load under the Special Types regulations) and any instruction that may be given by an enforcement officer (eg when under police escort). Time spent working in other employment regardless of the occupation type or volunteering when there is an obligation to undertake duties cannot count as rest and must be counted as duty. This includes, but is not limited to: