Tacho's Ltd offers digital tachograph analysis & analogue tachograph chart analysis as well as drivers hours training.
External links
Department for Transport - it's all here.
VOSA web site.
The Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations.
Need to know about public services.
Regulations update
Downloading frequency of digital tachograph data from 05/02/2008
The Vehicle Unit at least every 56 days and the drivers card at least every 28 days.
Retention by drivers of analogue tachograph charts from 05/02/2008
The requirement to hand charts in is now 42 days.
Retention of analogue tachograph charts from 01/01/2008
Requirement for driver to keep analogue tachograph charts increases to 29 calendar days ( including current days' tacho )
The requirement to hand charts in is likely to change to 42 days soon.
Speed limiter settings from 01/01/2008
Vehicles over 3.5 Tonnes but not over 7.5 Tonnes, first registered on or after 1st January 2005 and used soley in the UK must have their speed limiters set to 56 mph.
Speed limiter settings from 01/01/2007
Details - click here
Summary.....
Euro-3 diesel engined vehicles over 3.5 tonnes registered between 01/10/2001 and 31/12/2004 to be fitted with speed limiter
set to 56 mph and are banned from the outside lane of motorways with 3 or more lanes.
New drivers' hours from 11/04/2007
Details - click here
OR
click here
and select the 'EC Drivers Hours' updated 01/03/07 pdf document.
Summary.....
Breaks : 45 minute break can only be taken in two separate periods, not three as now. The first period must be at
least 15 minutes and the second at least 30 minutes.
Daily rest : 11 hours rest, may be reduced to a minimum of 9 hours upto 3 times
in any one week. Any reductions will not require compensation.
Split daily rest : Maiximum of 2 periods. The first no less than 3 hours & the second at least 9 hours. Which effectively puts an end to being able to
extend the duty period to 16 hours, because the regulations also require that, counting forward from the start of duty, all activities and required rest must
be taken within 24 hours.
Weekly rest : In any two consecutive weeks, a driver must take at least two standard weekly rest periods (45 hours each) or
one standard weekly rest period and one reduced weekly rest period (at least 24 hours).
Reductions in weekly rest down to 24 hours can be taken anywhere, not just away from base, and will need to be compensated
by the end of the third week following the reduction.
Weekly / fortnightly driving limit : No change to fortnightly, but a new 56 hour weekly driving limit is introduced.
Double manning : Daily rest 9 hours in 30, but the presence of another driver is optional for the first hour.
Ferry or train : Daily rest may be interrupted twice, providing the rest period is at least 11 hours.
Off road driving : All driving is counted as 'carriage by road' so private site driving cannot be 'other work'
Other work : Drivers must record all other work, including work for other employers, if it is done in the same
week as their normal work.
Carriage of passengers
The following concessions will no longer apply :
Duty Rosters & Service Timetables.
A regular service in a route over 50km is subject to EC Rules, but a tachograph is not required as long as ........
Weekly rest. In the case of National and International carriage of passengers, other than on regular
services, the driver may postpone weekly rest until the end of the 12th day when two consecutive weekly rest periods must be taken.
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