{"id":31938,"date":"2023-05-29T10:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/?p=31938"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:52:35","slug":"logbook-and-worktime-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/logbook-and-worktime-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Logbook and worktime fines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2022 was a big year for logbook and worktime fines but less than when we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/how-many-fines-do-truck-drivers-get\/\">last did it in 2018<\/a>. If you were a truck driver, police were on your case due to the impact of fatigue on driver performance and risk. However, factors in your favour were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>More use of electronic logbooks which have fewer opportunities to make errors<\/li><li>Less traffic due to lockdowns, making it easier for truck drivers to meet schedules, therefore not exceed worktime hours.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Logbook infringements and penalties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Offence<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Number<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Allowed an omission to occur in a logbook<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Allowed vehicle to be used when logbook had omissions<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Allowed vehicle to be used when logbook was not maintained<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver failed to deliver copy of logbook record to employer<\/td><td>4<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver failed to produce current logbook on demand<\/td><td>291<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver failed to retain logbook for the required period<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver maintained 2 logbooks<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Facilitator\/employer failed to make records available<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Made a false statement in a logbook<\/td><td>54<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Produced a logbook containing 11 or more omissions<\/td><td>92<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Produced a logbook containing a false particular<\/td><td>33<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Produced a logbook containing between 1 and 5 omissions<\/td><td>950<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Produced a logbook containing between 6 and 10 omissions<\/td><td>118<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Sum<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>1549<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The total infringement fines were $360,050, plus court costs where applicable. Many of these will have resulted in 28-day suspensions and additional fines via the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figures clearly show that producing a current logbook, and producing a logbook with between 1-5 errors are the main issues drivers are grappling with. We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/course\/logbooks\/\">logbook and worktime course<\/a> to help drivers manage these. Also, recommended is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/course\/fatigue-management-course\/\">fatigue management course<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Worktime infringements and penalties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Offence<\/td><td>Number<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Caused or required a driver to exceed maximum work time<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Caused or required a driver to fail to comply with rest time requirements<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver didn&#8217;t have 10 hours continue rest in work day (60 mins or more)<\/td><td>39<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver didn&#8217;t have 10 hours continuous rest in work day (less than 60 mins)<\/td><td>15<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver drove more than 8 hours in a day &#8211; stage 2 accelerated licence<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceed 13 hours work time in a work day (60 mins or more)<\/td><td>38<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceed 13 hours work time in a work day (less than 60 mins)<\/td><td>11<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceeded 5.5 hours continuous work time (60 mins or more)<\/td><td>42<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceeded 5.5 hours continuous work time (less than 60 mins)<\/td><td>37<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceeded 70 hours&#8217; work time in cumulative period &#8211; 120 mins or more<\/td><td>5<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceeded 70 hours&#8217; continuous work time &#8211; 60 mins or more<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Driver exceeded 70 hours&#8217; continuous work time &#8211; less than 60 mins<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Sum<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>193<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All bar one of the above went to court, so we don&#8217;t have the amounts of the court-imposed fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 was a big year for logbook and worktime fines but less than when we last did it in 2018. If you were a truck driver, police were on your case due to the impact of fatigue on driver performance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/logbook-and-worktime-fines\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,385],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-31938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavy-vehicle","category-logbooks","tag-logbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31939,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions\/31939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingtests.co.nz\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}