When does this load's record have to be finished?
Put in the day the waste arrived and where your site is. The calculator counts the two working days you get, skipping weekends and that nation's bank holidays, and gives you the date.
The rule gives you until the end of the second working day after a load arrives to complete its record. The day it arrived is not one of the two, and neither are weekends or bank holidays, so the answer moves about depending on where in the week the load landed.
The deadline
Pick an arrival date and the answer appears here.
Which sites and which holidays this covers
Recording every load you take in is mandatory for receiving sites in England and Wales from October 2026, and in Scotland and Northern Ireland from January 2027. The clock reads the same in all four: you have until the end of the second working day after a load arrives, counting from the day after it came in. It applies whether the load turned up on a skip lorry or a tipper, and there is no minimum weight. Every load counts. The full rule, including what counts as a finished record and what happens if you miss the deadline, is in our post on the two-working-day rule.
The bank holidays it counts are the ones for the nation your site is in, taken from GOV.UK. England and Wales share a list. Scotland takes 2 January and St Andrew’s Day off but works Easter Monday, and its summer holiday falls at the start of August rather than the end. Northern Ireland keeps the England and Wales list and adds St Patrick’s Day and 12 July. So the same arrival date can give a different deadline in each, and a holiday next to a weekend can move it by more than one day on the calendar.
Our copy of the lists runs to the end of 2028. Ask for a date whose deadline lands past that and the calculator says so, rather than counting weekdays and hoping none of them turn out to be holidays.
Counting the days is the easy half
Knowing the date is one thing. Knowing which of the loads you took in this week still hasn’t got a finished record against it is the part that costs an afternoon, and a column of arrival dates in a spreadsheet won’t tell you.
CarrierNote works this deadline out on every receipt as it is created, and keeps one board of everything you’ve taken in, sorted by where each load sits against its own clock. You work down the list. See how it works for a receiving site.
Start on the free plan
CarrierNote is on the GOV.UK software provider list, connected to DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service. Receiving sites are in scope from October 2026 and carriers from October 2027, and you can be recording to DEFRA's standard from your first load, whenever you start.