Published: April 20, 2025
Several important updates to UK drivers’ hours rules have taken effect in 2024 and 2025. If you’re driving an HGV or PSV professionally, these changes impact your rest periods, tachograph use, and compliance responsibilities. Here’s what you need to know.
The updates are part of an EU and UK-wide effort to modernise transport safety regulations, reduce fatigue, and ensure fair treatment of drivers. They apply to both EU drivers’ hours and GB domestic rules.
These updates affect your working hours, rest periods, and how you plan routes. Staying compliant helps you avoid fines, downtime, and legal issues.
Our Drivers’ Hours and Digital Tachographs modules are fully updated to reflect the new rules. These sessions explain the changes in plain English and include real-life case studies.
Book Your Updated CPC Module →Yes — they are already in force or becoming mandatory by 2025 depending on your vehicle type and journey type.
If you drive internationally, yes. All relevant vehicles must be fitted with Smart Tachograph v2 by August 2025.
Some updates, like rest period flexibility and enforcement, apply across GB domestic operations as well.
Yes — our Drivers’ Hours CPC module includes everything you need to know for 2025 compliance.
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