Government proposal to ban full time workers from diving horseboxes at weekend

[Leanne]

Pretty much what it says in the title. The government are planning to follow the European regulations to the letter and prohibit full time workers from driving horseboxes for a hobby at the weekend or evening.

This would cripple the UK horse industry, which, lets face it, is the only sport we are consistently good at

More details and a petition can be found here

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/282995.html

[froal]

Cann't really see them doing this as they'd have to stop Caravaners plus anyone else with a trailer too then artic lorries the list goes on.....!!!

[unbridled]

As I understand it the legislation will not apply to trailers - it's aimed at the larger horsebox/lorries that need a tacograph recording the hours driven.
They want to apply the same rules as apply to lorry drivers regarding hours driven and breaks - and this is where the problem is. They are not prepared to differentiate between people that make their living driving and people that just use a lorry at weekends etc