Poland Haulers

How far is your averge hual ?
How many day are you away from home at a time?
How many hours can you drive pre day? (BY Law)

 

Hmm...
Here you have in polish how many hour we can drive http://www.hardtrucksite.pl/images/articles/tabela czas jazdy.PNG .
And I try to translate it to english:

Normal Time of Driving: 9 hours
Longest Time of driving you can do 2 times in week: 10 hours

In week you can drive maximum: max 56 h (4x9+2x10= 56)
Max time driving with no stop for rest: 4,5 h

You must stop for rest: min 45 minutes or 3x 15 minutes, or min 30 minutes and later 15 minutes

The daily rest:
normal: 11 hours/24 (you must do all eleven together)
short: 9 hours together 3 times in week. Later you must to sleep longer in ending of the week to do the normal rest.
Daily rest (when are 2 drivers driving the truck): 8 hours (all)/30

The week rest:
normal:45 hours with the daily rest.

I translate the most important, but you can sometimes cut your rest time, or driving time. This is not very difficult to understand, when you are driving. But when You are rading the Polish law you cannot understand it .

 

I unstand that very well thanK you

there we drive 11 hr per 24hr but may be on duity for 14 you count load unload and meals as on duity; but, then you get ten off unless the roads are bad ( Snow, Ice, fog ) then you can drive for 13 hr and work 16hr.

I don't know if you care but I like to konw about other places.

 

So you can drive longer, you have better law.

 

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In Holland you have the same laws as in Poland, like KapiPL translated. The drivers from Holland that drive trough Europe(international transports) are mostly 1 week from home. Monday to friday. Most drive 3500 km a week, I think. We have also drivers that never leave Holland (national transports), they are home every night. Some national drivers are away from home for 5 days (monday to friday) so it's very different.

This weekend there was a Polish trucker waiting here in town. I think he didn't have cargo back on friday and had to wait here untill monday. So this driver will not see home for 2 weeks I think. Thats real bad because you can't do anything for 2 days, but it can happen to any driver that is doing international.

 

Sometime's boss of your firm don't like you to go home. I know stories when drivers were a month, or more in truck.

 

There has to come an Eurpean law to protect drivers against this kind of problems. Staying a month in a European truckcabin is absurd!! They are ways to small for that..

 

KapiPL siemanko! I tried to write po Polsku but its not allowed, I am from Poland but driving in the US witam! z Portland, OR no Polish people here

 

Cześc MTC. Tell me your story Why you went to USA? When you came there, you wanted to be a trucker?
Fajnie że są jacyś polacy na forum Translate: qool that on this forum are poles
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