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18th January 2001, Page 22
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Referring to your Any Questions item (C144-10 January) in which you set out the European Court's interpretation of the drivers' hours rules, consider this: a driver leaves base at 08:00hrs, not having had any breakfast, and stops at the cafe five minutes up the road to eat and drink during a half-hour break. He then drives for four hours 25 minutes and takes a 15minute break after which he drives for 4X hours and goes off duty. All perfectly correct and legal but looking backwards over the day, the driver has driven for eight hours 55 minutes with only a 15-minute break in the middle.

Is this what the legislators had in mind when they decided to control drivers' hours? Frank lawsay, Witney, Oxon.