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> with many of them doing 14-16-hour driving stints Are they not required to comply with driving time trackers? From https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road

• paganel 5y ago
  > Are they not required to comply with driving time trackers? Unfortunately not for the smaller vans. In your link they mention: > road haulage and passenger transport vehicles, which "road haulage" I'm pretty sure means the regular big lorries we all think about. But when driving a Mercedes Sprinter [1] the same rules don't apply. You can actually drive that Sprinter with a regular driver's license, while for a regular lorry you need to take additional exams so that you can get into the "you can drive a lorry/big truck" category. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/2019_Mercedes-Benz_Sprinter_314_CDi_2.1.jpg/1200px-2019_Mercedes-Benz_Sprinter_314_CDi_2.1.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/20...
• michaelt 5y ago
  If you're driving an 18-wheeler truck, sure. But a lot of door-to-door delivery these days uses "independent contractors" who use their personal vehicles and fuel, and get paid e.g. £120 for 180 deliveries. Nobody's enforcing digital tacho cards for people's personal vehicles.