CatfordCat
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To pick up a couple of points -
Whether or not a service touches a motorway isn't relevant to drivers hours, it's the end to end distance of the service that is the legal dividing line between EU / domestic hours, so (for example) the First Berkshire 'Green Line' service between Victoria and Windsor is under 50 Km end to end, the Windsor - Bracknell bit is registered as a separate service.
The rules for what qualifies as a 'local bus service' for concessionary passes is under different legislation, and you can have services which run under domestic drivers hours, but don't count as 'local bus' for concessionary passes. And possibly vice versa (I'm a bit out of touch with concessionary travel these days)
As for school bus drivers, the bit between (approx) 0930 and 1430 is, from a drivers hours perspective, a break within a working day, not a break between two working days.
The working day of a part time school bus driver is going to be something like 0700 to 1700, so there's a break of more than 12 hours between two working days, so this would be fine under either EU or domestic hours.
Whether or not a service touches a motorway isn't relevant to drivers hours, it's the end to end distance of the service that is the legal dividing line between EU / domestic hours, so (for example) the First Berkshire 'Green Line' service between Victoria and Windsor is under 50 Km end to end, the Windsor - Bracknell bit is registered as a separate service.
The rules for what qualifies as a 'local bus service' for concessionary passes is under different legislation, and you can have services which run under domestic drivers hours, but don't count as 'local bus' for concessionary passes. And possibly vice versa (I'm a bit out of touch with concessionary travel these days)
As for school bus drivers, the bit between (approx) 0930 and 1430 is, from a drivers hours perspective, a break within a working day, not a break between two working days.
The working day of a part time school bus driver is going to be something like 0700 to 1700, so there's a break of more than 12 hours between two working days, so this would be fine under either EU or domestic hours.
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