Drivers of Snap-on Tools mobile shops have been forced to adopt driver’s hours rules and use tachographs for the first time.
MD Terry Barcham explains that all 420 Snap-on franchisees have traditionally been exempt from tachographs, the result of a derogation affecting door-to-door delivery drivers. However, this changed on April 11, and with very little warning. Barcham says the company was
only informed on April 9, giving drivers just two days to familiarise themselves with drivers’ hours rules, get their tachographs calibrated and indeed learn how to use tachographs. He says the problem has been exacerbated for the drivers of the latest Iveco Daily 6.5-tonners to join the fleet, as they are fitted with digital tachographs. As well as learning how to use the technology, the drivers have had to apply for both company and driver smart cards.
“We had absolutely no warning that these changes were coming in,” he says. “And we want the government to bring back the exemption.”
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