The Ruling on Shortening the Prayer for the Permanent Traveler

Question:
I work as a driver for a company, and my job requires me to be traveling constantly. Do I shorten the prayer constantly?

Answer:
The traveler whose travel is permanent falls into two categories. The first is that he has a time in the year when he rests, staying for a period of time.
He stays for a period of time, for example, he has a vacation where he rests, or he has a period where he sits and rests from traveling. In this case, yes, he breaks his fast and shortens the prayer because he is a traveler, and he is more deserving of the dispensation than the one who travels only sometimes. He makes up the fast during the period in which he rests and stays in the year.
This is the traveler who travels repeatedly and has a stay for part of the year. The second category is the one who has no rest at all; he is always traveling and has no period in which to rest or stay. This person fasts and completes the prayer because he has no period in which to stay in the year. Rather, his entire life is like that of a sailor. They speak of the ship’s sailor who has no residence in a country and does not intend to reside in a country, but his home is his ship. This person fasts and completes the prayer.