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Driving and rest times; monitoring

Compliance with social regulations in road traffic is monitored by the state as part of company inspections and road checks.

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Drivers and passengers of trucks with a maximum permissible mass of more than 3.5 tons (3.5 t maximum permissible mass) and buses and coaches are subject to special regulations for their protection and in the interests of road safety. These apply uniformly throughout the European Union. They regulate, among other things, the permitted daily and weekly driving times, the minimum breaks to be taken and the daily and weekly rest periods for drivers.

There are also national regulations on the recording of driving times, including breaks and rest periods (tachographs or handwritten records for vehicles with a maximum permissible mass of over 2.8 t and not more than 3.5 t).

Furthermore, drivers may not be paid according to the distance traveled or the quantity of goods transported.

On the road, checks are carried out by the police and the Federal Office for Logistics and Mobility (BALM). Here, an individual vehicle is checked, among other things, for current compliance (current day and previous 56 calendar days) with the driving and rest period regulations.

In the companies, systematic checks are carried out by the trade supervisory offices at the governments with regard to compliance with social regulations in road traffic. As a rule, the entire fleet or larger parts of the fleet are checked over a longer period of time. In particular, these checks are intended to verify the proper disposition of the vehicles and drivers used by the company, transport manager and dispatcher.

Violations of social regulations in road traffic generally constitute administrative offenses for the driver as well as for the company and persons commissioned by the company (e.g. dispatcher), which can be punished with fines.

The amount of the fines is based on the nationally standardized "Catalogues of fines and warnings for driving personnel law" (publication of the State Committee for Occupational Safety and Safety Technology (LASI) - LV 48). In addition, when determining and punishing the most serious infringements (Regulation (EC) No. 1071/2009 Annex IV) against the transport manager or the transport company, an official examination procedure is carried out with regard to the withdrawal of reliability.

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Status: 19.09.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Familie, Arbeit und Soziales
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