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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 06:51 PM
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Nope

The key word above is DELIVERY

You are not driving FOR your job, you are driving TO your job.

Doesn't matter where that job is.

If you are traveling from home to different sites throughout the course of your day then the drive from home to the first site would be classed as work- for example a crane driver- but then would he really take the crane home? NO... So therefore he would drive to his place of work for a normal time (say 9.00am) and then drive on from his work place to the various sites in the crane.

As an example a previous job I had envolved going to various customers jobs in my company car and i had no yard as such- all the time from when I left home to when I got to home was normal working time.

Ultimatly now I work from an office but if I have to go out to site I am expected to arrive and go at the normal site times- it makes no difference how far or short I have to travel, the same can be said when I go to a different office.

Another consideration is method of pay- salary or hourly paid as you are unlikely to attract overtime payment if you are salary paid.

Also its worth noting that in construction professions as members of certain schemes you are paid for travel as expenses if the site is a certain distance from your home, I know of a few guys who would preffer to work further away as they effectivly get paid a 12hr day rather than a 10hr day.

Jake

PS- You need to read up on the WORKING TIME REGULATIONS as per your first post, its quite self explanetory....
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