The
WTD came into force on the 23rd of March 2005 and it is the
responsibility of each company to ensure that their drivers understand
and comply with these regulations.
In order to prepare yourselves there are certain steps you may
take now, such as using the ‘driver planner’ and the correct use of
the mode switch.
Companies are
required to keep working time
records for 2 years after the period covered. By following these
simple procedures you will comply with this regulation and only need to
use this one system to store your working time records.
Driver
Planner
Clients
should make use of the ‘driver
planner’, which can be found under schedules in their account.
They should enter such things as annual leave and sickness for
each driver, which need to be taken into account when determining the
average weekly ‘working time’ under the WTD
Crossed
Hammers
Working
time as defined in Directive 2002/15/EC of the European Parliament and
of the Council of 11 March 2002 on the organisation of the working time
of persons performing mobile road transport activities, other than
driving should be recorded under the 'crossed hammers' mode.
Lines
on charts
Where
a driver commences, or finishes work before or after recordings on his
tachograph chart he should record his start and finish times by drawing
a line on the front of the chart indicating his start time EDR
– (End of daily rest) and finish time SDR – (Start of daily
rest). EWR and SWR
should be used where the weekly rest is ended or started. It is not an
offence to do this – see Terms of use.
The
time between these lines and the duty on the tachograph will be read as
'crossed hammers'. If drivers perform duty not recorded on the chart and these
lines are not drawn in the total duty shown on the analysis will not
represent the total in relation to 48 hour weekly ' working time '.
Incorrect
use of mode switch
True
analysis will be based on the correct use of the mode switch by the
driver. In order to ensure
as accurate as possible the recording of his duties, the driver should
set his mode to 'crossed hammers' before moving off.
This will automatically record 'driving' when the vehicle is
moving and ' working time' when the vehicle stops.
He will only need to alter his mode to record 'rest', or 'periods
of availability'.
Incorrect
use of the mode,
not recording EDR/SDR and not using the ‘driver planner’,
will produce incorrect times for the 48 hour weekly working time and
therefore the accuracy of the analysis, unless you are using the data
with another program which is recording sickness, holidays and total
working time.
