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Make sure you know your driving limits

These rules apply to the carriage of own goods maximum weight exceeds 3.5 tonnes, or drivers of passenger vehicles that carry 8 or more passengers over 50 kilometres

Driving Limits

  • Employees may drive no more than 9 hours a day. This requirement may be extended to 10 hours, up to twice a week.
  • Employees may drive no more than 56 hours in a single week. Employers may not exceed 90 hours in any two week period.

    • Break points

  • Drivers must take at least a 45 minuet break for every 4.5 hours driven. The break can broken up into 2 periods if the first break is at least 15 minuets long and the second is at least 30 muinuets.

    • Rest periods

  • Employees must take a minimum of 11 hours of rest daily. This can be reduced to 9 hours no more than that 3 times between weekly rests.
  • The daily rest can be broken up into 2 periods. The first must be at least 3 hours long and the second must be at least 9 hours long.
  • Employees must start their weekly rest period no later than the end of 66 consecutive 24 hour periods since the last weekly rest.
  • A regular weekly rest period is 45 hours. However, an employee may take a reduced weekly rest period of at least 24 consecutive hours. In any 2 consecutive weeks, the employee must have at least 2 weekly rests - one of them being at least 45 hours.
  • If an employee takes a reduced weekly rest, they must compensate for the reduced hours is an equivalent period of rest, in one block, before the end of the third week following the reduced weekly rest. The compensated rest period must be attached to another period of rest of at least 9 hours.

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