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>> Since when does 4.5 hours = 15 hours? Or are you counting your breaks
>> to? I'll have to try that in my job. "Hey boss, I might be sitting
>> with my feet up at my desk for 45 minutes , but I'm working. No ,
>> really!"

>
> You can only drive for 4.5 hours continuously before you need to take a 45
> minute break. You can do a total duty time of 15 hours if you choose but no
> more than 10 hours of this can be driving and you cannot do this every day.
>
> And yes, if you are on hourly pay you get paid while you are waiting to be
> tipped, and are reading the newspaper etc.
>
>
>

>> And if you did ever drive for 15 hours non stop you're a danger to
>> yourself and everyone else on the road and should be arrested IMO
>> before you kill someone.

>
> I used to regularly drive in one shift from Moscow back to the
> Belarus/Poland border which took 20 hours and I'm not dead yet and neither
> is anyone else I met along the way.

> It was legal- Russia didn't have tachograph rules at the time- and I was
> being paid so much at the time that a Shell tanker driver would have been
> ashamed to have compared payslips.