London,EN,UK -HGV UK -December 6, 2010: -- The Road Haulage Association tonight welcomed the Department for Transport’s decision to relax temporarily the enforcement of EU drivers’ hours rules... This temporary relaxation applies immediately and will run until 23:59 on 7 December 2010. For those drivers and work in question, the EU drivers’ hours rules will be temporarily relaxed as follows:
* Replace the EU daily driving limit of 9 hours with one of 10 hours
* Reduce the daily rest requirements from 11 to 9 hours.
* Lift the weekly (56 hours) and fortnightly driving limit (90 hours).
* Postponing the weekly rest requirement until 23:59 on 7 December 2010, at which stage a driver has to take a normal weekly rest of 45 hours.
* Notwithstanding the postponement of the weekly rest requirement (see preceding bullet point), a driver must take a minimum rest of 24 hours beginning no later than the end of the eleventh day since the end of his last weekly rest period.
The requirement to take a 45 minute break after 4½ hours driving remains and will continue to be rigorously enforced... (Picture from tachoblog: Daniel Pereira Casalinho has been hauling ice cream, vegetables and paper all over Europe in the new Scania V8)
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