We run a mixed fleet of vans and tacho vehicles and some of the drivers are swapping in and out of both and chuck in the odd day of nothing much/yard work.
We use record books, we don’t make manual entries into the tacho. That is absolutely fine and legal and I say this because:
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We had a run in with DVSA a couple of years back, when they stopped us for a check and the driver produced his written records and the DVSA guy refused to accept them and kept hold of him for 9 hours. Transport solicitors got involved and they were adamant that we were legal.
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I just voluntarily put myself through an RHA audit and raised that very question in case anything had changed recently and no it hasn’t.