norb:
I have just done my tacho refresher …The instructor was ex DVSA started of as a red coat ad worked his way up through the system seemed to know his stuff ,He did mention out of scope ,not a thing that I care about as I only calibrate /repair them…And next june the new tacho is out that DVSA can download remotely …I did point out our irish friends have probably already sussed a blocker or a way to send a I’m legal signal lol…Lets say he laughed and didn’t disagree …When approved we will need to get new equiptment for calibrating them including a tool that can check it can be checked by DVSA remotely but I digressFrom what he said about Out of Scope …If you are in a quarry all day ie off road then Out of Scope is ok …But if you then go on the main road you come under regs ,if you then go back in the quarry you are still under regs and can not go back to Out of Scope…So in a days work according to him you cant go out of scope to normal driving on the highway then back to out of scope
That’s true for drivers who don’t meet the criteria of an exemption or derogation of the EU regs.
It used to be if a journey was made completely off road, then it was out of scope, ie, deliver to a quarry, you’re in scope on the quarry till you’ve tipped the load, if you then loaded up and tipped it at the other side of the quarry, then as that journey was all off road it was out of scope, then back in scope once tipped, but that is no longer the case.
If you meet the criteria of an exemption or derogation, then you could go in and out of out of scope during the day