tallyman:
Reading the article it has nothing to do with drivers’ phone usage, but one of the points in the article intrigues me:
“access to ANPR recognitions to validate drivers hours records”
Anyone have any idea how this would work? The only way that leaps to mind is trucks arriving at ferry ports being tracked later in the day, but any other possibilities?
Only way I can think is if the trucks a new one with bluetooth tacho in it.
They are real read an article about in in a truck magazine.
Not sure how they work .
as surely if they want to pair to your tacho be like a phone have to input a pin number and allow access to it?
The new tacho can be remotely interrogated to see if it is being used without a card, or there is a disparity in vehicle speed between GPS and recorded road speed or otherwise interfered with. In the UK, DVSA and the police are not going to have the equipment to do this. In any case the equipment doesn’t yield legally admissible evidence, it just indicates that it might be worth stoping the vehicle. It doesn’t ‘record’ the possible offence onto any central system.
It’s only a matter of time before a tacho will be remotely accessed and GPS tracked by authorities, they’d be able to scan 100’s of lorries travelling on a motorway network and it could highlight any discrepancies worthy of prosecution and in this world of ever evolving technology that can’t be a million miles away.
sunsetdriving:
It’s only a matter of time before a tacho will be remotely accessed and GPS tracked by authorities, they’d be able to scan 100’s of lorries travelling on a motorway network and it could highlight any discrepancies worthy of prosecution and in this world of ever evolving technology that can’t be a million miles away.
robroy:
It’s yet another example of the Big Brother Stazi esque modern UK.
Watch your every move to keep you in line to be ‘‘good citizens’’.
All this [zb] is getting [zb] worse and I hate it, wtf has happened to our country.
On the other hand on this specific latest venture, to catch bent drivers that is, I still can not believe that some drivers are sooo [zb] stupid to break driver’s hours rules in modern times today,…and this is coming from the guy who habitually flaunted them in the 80s when it was just ‘‘The done thing’’ .
Exactly. The reason we all have to suffer is because of the actions of a minority too stupid to realise that you cannot go on like its the 1970s any more and that employers, places we deliver to where we represent the company and the law expect us to act like the professionals we claim we are.
sunsetdriving:
It’s only a matter of time before a tacho will be remotely accessed and GPS tracked by authorities, they’d be able to scan 100’s of lorries travelling on a motorway network and it could highlight any discrepancies worthy of prosecution and in this world of ever evolving technology that can’t be a million miles away.
It’s not…the remote system can only detect disparities between what the tacho says and what the truck is doing (ie truck moving when tacho resting)…it can’t record them, and can’t find out about hours offences. Basically, it’s to stop people using magnets etc to disguise unrecorded driving.
That’s straight from Continental, which makes them.