Inacurate Digi Tachos and the law.

[Rumple]

Anyone who has used these knows they click on 2 minutes when the wheels move, today I have gone four minutes over 4:30, I know however my card clocked up 14 minutes of driving before I left the yard,this involved about 1:30 secs of driving, I'm sitting here thinking I could potetialy be prosecuted for this when really I haven't broke the law, the Tacho is so inaccurate it is unable to record time correctly, has anyone seriously fought this?, why was such a bad system allowed? Surely the technology existed to record accurate driving time for f cks sake any thoughts on this?

[loud430]

my boss just had a new version tacho put in the 56 plate truck I drive as he was fed up with all the time I was losing in a day queuing in traffic round oxford.
this version two tacho is much better than the 1st one, its paid itself back in a couple of weeks. vosa must by now know about the problems with the original versions.

[pja]

I believe the latest digital tacho head records in seconds rather than minutes,
I have a customer who is replacing all the heads to the later type & he reckons his drivers can gain up to 5 hrs more driving per week!!

[loud430]

yep, this is what we have found, Its taken the pressure out of the working day now, I used to dread spotting a queue coming up but these new version tachos are so much better at recording driving time.

[GC8]

loud430 said:

my boss just had a new version tacho put in the 56 plate truck I drive as he was fed up with all the time I was losing in a day queuing in traffic round oxford.
this version two tacho is much better than the 1st one, its paid itself back in a couple of weeks. vosa must by now know about the problems with the original versions.

They knew in 2007 because they conducted a side by side test with a two minute digital tacho and an analogue version. Unfortunately after identifying the problem they didnt do a great deal.

I wouldnt worry about 5mins, but I would printout and makes notes and photocopy it because thermal printing fades.

[Rumple]

GC8 said:

loud430 said:

my boss just had a new version tacho put in the 56 plate truck I drive as he was fed up with all the time I was losing in a day queuing in traffic round oxford.
this version two tacho is much better than the 1st one, its paid itself back in a couple of weeks. vosa must by now know about the problems with the original versions.

They knew in 2007 because they conducted a side by side test with a two minute digital tacho and an analogue version. Unfortunately after identifying the problem they didnt do a great deal.

I wouldnt worry about 5mins, but I would printout and makes notes and photocopy it because thermal printing fades.

That is a good point, at the moment I've got the print out in my wallet.

[Rumple]

pja said:

I believe the latest digital tacho head records in seconds rather than minutes,
I have a customer who is replacing all the heads to the later type & he reckons his drivers can gain up to 5 hrs more driving per week!!

We have 09 reg Dafs and 62 reg Mercs, the newer trucks don't have this problem but the Dafs, Jesus.

[Tielst]

Sitting in the queue in Purfleet docks this morning, I managed to do 40 minutes driving, just by moving forward a truck length every so often!!

[cossy400]

Wish my boss would see the sense in havin a new tacho head put in mine.

SIde by side against a new one who d done the same work as me, I pulled up on 415 and he d still got just over an hour.

Anyone with half a brain can see how much it would pay for its self.