Drivers' hours
Rules for employers
If you employ drivers and other mobile workers, you need to:
- keep drivers’ hours records for at least one year
- make sure they are properly trained and understand the rules
- organise their time so that they can follow the rules
- check your drivers’ hours records and data
- monitor your workers’ working time
- be able to show enforcement officers records from the last 12 months
You cannot pay your employees based on speed of delivery, distance travelled or the amount of goods carried if this encourages drivers to break the rules.
Mobile workers are:
- drivers - including employed drivers, own-account drivers and agency drivers
- members of the vehicle crew, for example a second driver on a coach
- anyone else who is part of the travelling staff, for example a bus conductor, a drayman or a security guard aboard a vehicle carrying high-value goods
Check the full list of rules for driving goods vehicles or rules for driving buses and coaches.