Social Legislation and Labour Rules for Drivers
This domain tests the working-time and rest rules specific to professional drivers, plus the general labour-law framework. Understand the categories of time: driving time, other work, availability/break, and rest. Know the daily and weekly limits, the minimum daily and weekly rest periods, and the mandatory breaks after continuous driving. Master the tachograph regime: recording obligations, the driver card, manual entries, and the retention and inspection of records. Distinguish the EU-style rules (daily driving, weekly driving, the extended day twice per week, the weekly rest compensation) from purely national variations - and always answer according to the jurisdiction the exam targets.
Alongside driving rules, study the general labour code: types of employment contract, probation, notice and severance, working-time records, overtime, night work, annual leave, and health-and-safety obligations of the employer. Know the driver's duty to be fit for duty and the employer's duty to organise schedules lawfully.
Traps: mixing driving time with total working time (a driver can be working without driving); forgetting that a break must interrupt driving, not merely pause it; and applying the wrong weekly-rest rule. Questions often present a schedule and ask whether it is lawful - compute carefully.
Worked rule of thumb: add up all driving first, then all other work, then check breaks and rest separately. If any single limit is breached, the schedule fails even if the total looks fine.