Removals drivng hours

[ColinM50]

Watched the Removal men TV prog last night and one of the clips was a crew of Pickfords removal chaps who'd spent three days loading a huge artic and due to the amount of stuff, they didn't get done till after dark on day three. Couple of the lads disappeared off in a Transit but one of them, all on his own, set off to drive eight hours from Somerset I think to Scotland.

Surely that can't be allowed can it? Is that what you HGV drivers have to do? A full days work then drive for your legal hours as well?