Photos from the road Mark 2: Now with required 30 minute breaks

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Nidhg00670000: Mar 26, 2010; We're in the pipe, five by five.; Grimey Drawer

Here in Sweden, most truckers driving longhaul (a very varied term in Sweden, but mostly taken to mean you sleep in the cabin sometimes instead of going home every night) have one rig that is "theirs", and quite often if you're lucky to have "your" rig replaced when you're around you can get to have a lot of say in equipment, since a couple of extra speakers and some nicer seats is a very small part of the final price on a truck.

With that said, my friends company bought a new truck which happened to be the one that the boss' son drives. He got a built in PS3, a LED tv, and stereo equipment worth a little over $7000 put in...

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Nidhg00670000: Mar 26, 2010; We're in the pipe, five by five.; Grimey Drawer

Nidhg00670000 posted:

As for Sweden and winter tyres, straight from the Swedish Transport Agency:

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 23:26

Nidhg00670000: Mar 26, 2010; We're in the pipe, five by five.; Grimey Drawer

As someone living in a country where the answer to all and every kind of winter road is SALT, I can tell you that salt has a few, very specific kinds of wintry conditions where it works great. Most of the time it just turns everything into slush (making poo poo worse) AND it rusts the hell out of your car.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2014 16:34

Nidhg00670000: Mar 26, 2010; We're in the pipe, five by five.; Grimey Drawer

Yeah, they're mandatory within the EU.

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All relevant vehicles manufactured since 1 May 2006 must be fitted with digital tachograph heads. The recording medium for analogue heads are wax coated paper discs, and for digital heads are digital driver cards containing a microchip with flash memory. Digital driver cards store data as a .ddd file that can be imported into tachograph analysis software.

Drivers are legally required to accurately record their activities, retain the records and produce them on demand to transport authorities who are charged with enforcing regulations governing drivers' working hours. Regulation (EC) 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council defines drivers hours.

I have a friend that used to drive timber lorries with the old paper ones and now drive car haulers with the digital one, and by the sounds of it this has really cut down on fiddling with hours.

These here are the EU regs btw, if anyone is curious.

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Driving hours

The main EU rules on driving hours are that you must not drive more than:

9 hours in a day - this can be extended to 10 hours twice a week
56 hours in a week
90 hours in any 2 consecutive weeks

All driving you do under EU rules must be recorded on a tachograph.

Breaks and rest

The main points of EU rules on breaks and rest are that you must take:

at least 11 hours rest every day - you can reduce this to 9 hours rest 3 times between any two weekly rest periods
an unbroken rest period of 45 hours every week - you can reduce this to 24 hours every other week
your weekly rest after 6 consecutive 24-hour periods of working, starting from the end of the last weekly rest period taken (coach drivers on an international trip can take their weekly rest after 12 consecutive 24-hour periods, starting from the end of the last weekly rest period taken)
a break or breaks totalling at least 45 minutes after no more than 4.5 hours driving

# ¿ Aug 18, 2014 23:07

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