Drivers Hours and Working Time Directive

This Drivers Hours and Working Time Directive (WTD) course is designed to highlight drivers responsibilities under drivers hours legislation and provide practical experience of working with digital equipment. We only work with the best trainers that have a wealth of knowledge. This helps any professional driver to gain a better understanding when out on the road.

Drivers Hours and Working Time Directive (WTD) topics covered include:

Operator Licensing

• Understanding of operator licensing commitments and undertakings and how this impacts the driver and operator

Drivers Hours Introduction

• Drivers hours, Driving breaks, Daily driving and extension, and Weekly driving
• Fixed week, Fortnightly driving, daily rest periods and reductions.

Drivers Hours & Working Time Regulations

• EU drivers hours rules and working time regulations
• Use of recording equipment
• Domestic regulations and record keeping requirements
• Duty time & rest reductions
• Compensation & Unforeseen Circumstances
• Regulations & average working week
• Inclusions and exclusions – periods of availability, and night work

Tachograph Regulations

• Failure & Misuse
• Producing records
• Procedures for driving without driver card
• Tachograph Rules
• Tachograph record keeping
• Tachograph compliance and penalties
• Digital Tachographs
• Driver card and data storage

Digital Tachographs

• Introduction to digital tachograph
• Digital Tachograph developments and changes
• Print outs and type of print outs
• Manual entries and data collection
• How to use digital tachograph

Analogue Tachographs (where applicable)

• The recording equipment
• Tachograph Record
• Creating the record

Powers of enforcement

• Offences & Penalties
• Graduated Penalties
• Enforcement Action

Operator Compliance Score

• What is OCR
• How does it work
• Results of poor OCR score

VU Technical Development

• Future changes/enhancements to the VUs

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