Digital Tachograph

Digital Tachograph as a means of recording driver activities is now widely in use and used to record time, speed and distance travelled by goods vehicles. Digital Tachographs additionally record a broad range of events and activities, the use of tachographs for record keeping purposes in vehicles operating within the scope of the (EU) drivers hours rules is governed by Regulation EC 3821/85. It should be noted that there is now no exemptions from tachograph use for Short distance operations. Infrequent use of vehicle. Only occasional driving. The instrument records and stores: Distance travelled by the vehicle with an accuracy of 1 km speed of the vehicle. Periods of driving time (times and dates) with an accuracy of 1 minute. Other periods of work or availability (times and dates) with an accuracy of 1 minute. Breaks from work and daily rest periods (times and dates) with an accuracy of 1 minute. The driver smart card issue number with time and date of insertion and removal. The VRN (vehicle registration number) of the vehicles driven. Date, time and duration of driving without an inserted functioning driver card. It is the driver's responsibility to apply to DVLA Swansea for the driver card price GBP 38.00 and replacement cards will cost GBP 19.00. To ensure that drivers are able to log in and log out and to ensure that you are able to access securely and download the data stored in the VU. It is important that on acquiring the vehicle, the company card is used to log in the data Clearly drivers will require training to fully understand the change from analogue to digital use of equipment. ACE can provide such training either on site or at our training centre.

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