42-hour day: how to rearm the day of delivery without losing deliveries

Two hours less per week seem little until they look on the route: it is the last deliveries of the day, which were made "if time was up." If your team was already finished right, since April those deliveries became extra hours or orders that pass the next day.

What does the law say

• Calendar: 44 hours from 26 April 2024, 42 hours from 26 May 2026 and 40 hours from 26 February 2028.
• The implementation of the law cannot mean a reduction in remuneration.
• The hours that exceed the ordinary day are paid with a 50% surcharge. By written agreement, they can be compensated with up to five working days of additional rest per year.
• Without agreement between the parties, the reduction is applied at the end of the day: in days of five days, one hour in two separate days; in days of six days, 50 minutes in two days and 20 minutes in a third.
• There are, among others, those who work without immediate higher control, and this exclusion is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Interurban freight and passenger transport drivers have special day rules in the Labour Code. If so, check them with the Labour Directorate before applying the above.

From hours to deliveries

What is worth knowing is how many deliveries fit in the hours your team works. For this it takes a data that almost no one has measured: the real time per delivery, counting the transfer, looking for parking, waiting for the customer and returning to the vehicle.

With that number, the account is simple. If a route has seven effective hours and each delivery takes on average 35 minutes, it is 12. If in two days of the week the day ends an hour before, those days are 10. The example is illustrative: the average that matters is yours.