In addition, the claim that the ‘new route is being developed to high quality dual carriageway/motorway standards’ is also false, as there are no truck rest stops built along this new road, despite the government's promise that all new roads will have rest areas and facilities for truck drivers.

In Article 18, third subparagraph, the expression "on condition that equivalent compensating rest periods are granted to the workers concerned" is replaced by "on condition that equivalent compensating rest periods are granted to the workers concerned within seventy-two hours or within a reasonable period".

The entire period of on-call time, including the inactive part, shall be regarded as working time. However, Member States shall have the option, subject to compliance with the general principles relating to the protection of the safety and health of workers, and provided that the social partners concerned have been consulted, of allowing, by means of laws, regulations or collective agreements or agreements between the two sides of industry, inactive on-call periods to be counted in a specific manner for the purpose of calculating the average maximum weekly working time provided for in Article 6, provided that the workers concerned are af ...[+++]forded adequate compensatory rest, and provided that pregnant women and parents of children under the age of one are exempt from such measures, if they so request, or are afforded appropriate protection.

2. Derogations provided for in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 may be adopted by means of laws, regulations or administrative provisions or by means of collective agreements or agreements between the two sides of industry provided that the workers concerned are afforded equivalent periods of compensatory rest or that, in exceptional cases in which it is not possible, for objective reasons, to grant such equivalent periods of compensatory rest, the workers concerned are afforded appropriate protection.

2. Derogations may be adopted by means of laws, regulations or administrative provisions or by means of collective agreements or agreements between the two sides of industry provided that the workers concerned are afforded equivalent periods of compensatory rest or that, in exceptional cases in which it is not possible, for objective reasons, to grant such equivalent periods of compensatory rest, the workers concerned are afforded appropriate protection:

Directive 2000/34/EC amending Directive 93/104/EC adds the terms "adequate rest"; "mobile worker": any worker employed as a member of travelling or flying personnel by an undertaking which operates transport services for passengers or goods by road, air, or inland waterway; "offshore work": work performed mainly on or from offshore installations.