(21 Mar 2015, 5:25 pm)aureolin wrote But it should still fall under GB rules, based on the amount of seats the vehicle has?
https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hours/passeng...g-vehicles
You also need to look into how the service is registered, is it even registered? Have the council decided its an emergency service due to utility work ect. Are fares charged? To be fair more loop-holes than regulations in driving hours. That's how a lot of operations are run, look into TaxiBus services, day tours, engineers on test ect ect.
Your major operators follow Domestic and EU/AETR rules by the book but some of the smaller companies use these loop holes. One example is the 13 day rule. With one of the major operators the max you will work is 13 days then have a day off, with one of the smaller operators you could be working for weeks without a day off and its all legal.