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My ex claimed she was working 20 hours a day as a ph driver. For a gross income of about £20k a year and under 30,000 miles? something wrong somewhere. Working can be sitting around at home watching Eastenders waiting for the next job to come in at midnight.

I'm glad I'm finished with the ph game now, rail replacement bus driving, 2x 9 hour weekend shifts, 3x 4 hour nights, take home over £450 after stoppages.

My interpretation of work (besides actually doing it) is that if you cannot be doing what you want i.e your hobbies/going out etc - then you are working, as you are tied to a certain span of hours. It is not working as such if as you say you are watching TV, but if you are watching the clock, or not certain to be seeing the program out, then you are in essence working. It would be very similar to say a concierge security guard who is watching TV to while away the time, he would still be getting paid. Working imo, is from the time that you start - until the time that you leave, the fact that you may do nothing still entails putting your time in.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

GOOD FOR YOU BUT HOW LONG WILL THE RAIL REPLACEMENT LAST? OR IS IT FOLLOWNG THE RAIL WORKS AROUND ....................NOT ON THE RHDR ??

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I presume the line is still closed at Dover so could be years yet and then there's that little fire at vauxhall I bet that'll bring in plenty of rail replacement work

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Vauxhall will be merely weeks likewise Dover i believe hope Roy keeps busy

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In terms of the 'Working Time Directive' all time in a taxi/PH waiting for work counts.

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Following the work around TT; while there's investment in the railways there will always be a need for rail replacement buses. This week nothing, next week nothing, but then it goes potty again. No, not the RHDR, I don't have any miniature buses...

The Dover-folkestone job will be about a year, a firm in Canterbury has the job and pays minimum/living wage, not worth going for. Vauxhall won't warrant replacement buses, too many needed and too much traffic plus plenty of alternative routes, 4 lines out of 6 now open according to Real Time Trains.

I get more from driving buses a few times a month than I have done driving p/h on the Romney Marsh for the last few years. Sheep don't go out very often, and all the night clubs in Ashford and Folkestone have shut down, along with loads of local pubs.