What type of the driver's activity is replacement of a wheel in the vehicle classified as?
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Correct answer
A. Other work.
Explanation
In the photo, you can see the wheels of the rear axle of a lorry and a spare wheel. You classify this activity as other work - answer A.
The EU Regulation defines other work as all activities that are defined as working time except driving, including any work for the same or another employer. Changing a wheel is vehicle maintenance done on the employer's instructions and in the employer's interest, so you set the tachograph switch to the crossed hammers symbol. A break (answer C) is time only for you, during which you must not do any work - that is why changing a wheel cannot be counted towards the required 45-minute break. A period of availability (answer B) is time when you are not working, but you stay with the vehicle - for example, you accompany it on a ferry or a train, or wait at a border crossing. You also count washing the vehicle, refuelling, customs formalities and supervising loading as other work.
Legal basis: Art. 4 letter d and e of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006; Art. 6 para. 1 of the Drivers' Working Time Act