Will your itinerary fit EU bus driver legal limits? We check before you commit.
A bus driver in the EU may drive at most 9 hours a day (10 hours at most twice a week), with a 45-minute break after 4.5 hours of driving and a daily rest of at least 11 hours. On a group tour this translates into a practical duty day of about 12 hours with the group — first pick-up to last drop-off. Send us your itinerary and we flag every day that doesn't fit, free, before you promise it to your client.
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How many hours can a bus driver drive per day on a tour in Europe?
At most 9 driving hours per day, extendable to 10 twice per week — that is EU law for buses and coaches, and it applies to every operator on the road, whatever anyone's website promises. Driving time is not the same as duty time: waiting, city walking tours and meal stops don't count as driving, which is why a well-built tour day can hold 12 duty hours with the group and still be legal.
The limits that actually shape a multi-day itinerary
Daily driving 9 h (10 h max twice a week) — a 700 km transfer day is at the edge.
Break 45 min after 4.5 h of driving.
Daily rest 11 h — a reduction (to 9 h, max 3× between weekly rests) is legally possible, but only by prior agreement with the driver and subject to a surcharge — never assume it when planning.
Duty day with the group ~12 h (11 h with separate driver hotel); longer days only where legal, by agreement, at €80 per started hour.
Multi-day rule: international occasional services may run up to 12 consecutive days before a weekly rest — one driver, correctly planned, legally covers a 12-day international tour with ~12-hour group days. The failures happen on single overloaded days, not on tour length.
Why we don't offer a second driver
A second driver doubles a cost your client won't pay for a sightseeing tour — and sightseeing groups don't need one. Tour passengers travel to be somewhere, not to be driven overnight; the typical long leg (say Paris–Zurich) fits one driver's legal day. When an itinerary doesn't fit, the honest fix is adjusting the itinerary, not adding a driver — and we tell you which day is the problem.
What “we check your itinerary” means — and what it doesn't
We are a bus operator, not a travel agency: we don't design tours, sell guides or book your group's hotels. What we do — with every quote, automatically — is verify your day plan against the legal limits above and flag conflicts with a suggestion of what to move. You keep the itinerary; we make sure it's drivable.