- a week
means the period of time between 00.00 on Monday and 24.00 on Sunday;
- break
means any period during which a driver may not carry out any driving or any other work and which is used exclusively for recuperation;
- carriage by road
means any journey made entirely or in part on roads open to the public by a vehicle, whether laden or not, used for the carriage of passengers or goods;
- daily driving time
means the total accumulated driving time between the end of one daily rest period and the beginning of the following daily rest period or between a daily rest period and a weekly rest period;
- daily rest period
means the daily period during which a driver may freely dispose of his time and covers a ‘regular daily rest period’ and a ‘reduced daily rest period’:
- driver
means any person who drives the vehicle even for a short period, or who is carried in a vehicle as part of his duties to be available for driving if necessary;
- driving period
means the accumulated driving time from when a driver commences driving following a rest period or a break until he takes a rest period or a break.
- driving time
means the duration of driving activity recorded:
- maximum permissible mass
means the maximum authorised operating mass of a vehicle when fully laden;
- multi-manning
means the situation where, during each period of driving between any two consecutive daily rest periods, or between a daily rest period and a weekly rest period, there are at least two drivers in the vehicle to do the driving.
- non-commercial carriage
means any carriage by road, other than carriage for hire or reward or on own account, for which no direct or indirect remuneration is received and which does not directly or indirectly generate any income for the driver of the vehicle or for others, and which is not linked to professional or commercial activity.
- occasional passenger services
means ‘occasional services’ as defined in Article 2, point 4, of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009, whether national or international;
- other work
means any activity other than driving, as defined in Article 3(a) of Directive 2002/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities, and also any work for the same or another employer within or outside of the transport sector, and must be recorded under this sign;
- reduced daily rest period
means any period of rest of at least nine hours but less than 11 hours;
- reduced weekly rest period
means any period of rest of less than 45 hours, which may, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 8(6), be shortened to a minimum of 24 consecutive hours;
- regular daily rest period
means any period of rest of at least 11 hours.
- regular passenger services
means ‘regular services’ and ‘special regular services’ as defined in Article 2, points 2 and 3, respectively, of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, whether national or international;
- regular weekly rest period
means any period of rest of at least 45 hours,
- rest
means any uninterrupted period during which a driver may freely dispose of his time;
- transport undertaking
means any natural person, any legal person, any association or group of persons without legal personality, whether profit-making or not, or any official body, whether having its own legal personality or being dependent upon an authority having such a personality, which engages in carriage by road, whether for hire or reward or for own account;
- vehicle
means a motor vehicle, tractor, trailer or semi-trailer or a combination of these vehicles, defined as follows:
- weekly driving time
means the total accumulated driving time during a week;
- weekly rest period
means the weekly period during which a driver may freely dispose of his time and covers a ‘regular weekly rest period’ and a ‘reduced weekly rest period’: