Today I was taking a 9 hour break in a factory I got woken up and told I needed to move due to emergency access I moved 1 minute and put it back onto break, if I do a print out and right on the back will that cover me thanks scot
I would say that if it was for emergency reasons then take 2 print outs one for yourself and 1 for the office and dont worry.I would doubt anything coming from it.But some will say you should have started your break again.
If you knew you was havin 9 off why leave the card in
Why not leave your card in?.Mine goes in monday and stays in till friday…
It will accepted as a one off - see advice above
scottyb6492:
Today I was taking a 9 hour break in a factory I got woken up and told I needed to move due to emergency access I moved 1 minute and put it back onto break, if I do a print out and right on the back will that cover me thanks scot
No you probably won’t be covered unless it was a genuine emergency that could not have been foreseen.
When you say you had to move “due to emergency access” it sounds like you was blocking a gate or entrance, was that the case ?
On the newer type digi tachos, if you move the vehicle a short distance while on Break, and then immediately put it back onto Break (while the symbol on the display is still flashing) no interruption to your Break (or, as in the OP’s case, Rest) will be recorded. Worth having a quick look at a 24h Driver Print (or Display) to see what the tacho has actually recorded.
Or take the card out move the lorry an manual entry the rest back in. Whos to say someone didn’t move the lorry for you.
m_attt:
Or take the card out move the lorry an manual entry the rest back in. Whos to say someone didn’t move the lorry for you.
because his curtains were closed, and he was asleep! Emergency end of, drivers parking in stupid areas more likely! 
Wait for someone to come along and mention about 25 yards of missed mileage. 
Don’t worry about it. Do a printout. People seem to panic about Vosa too much on here. So long as you aren’t deliberately breaking rules the odd mistake/discrepancy, if documented and explained, should be ok.
Aint no easy way to tell ya really, you’re going down!!! DONT BEND OVER FOR THE SOAP 
Don’t bother your arse mate, they can’t put you in front of a firing squad.
Another example of how drivers are getting stressed out over basically ■■■■ all 
They have achieved their agenda. 
Don’t let the bar steads win by taking these pedantic stupid ■■■■■■ tacho rules too seriously. Write on a print out and forget about it, its as easy as that. 
And take no notice of Orangeboy it will be him that chucks the soap down at your feet! 
robroy:
Don’t bother your arse mate, they can’t put you in front of a firing squad.
Another example of how drivers are getting stressed out over basically [zb] all
Don’t let the bar steads win by taking these pedantic stupid [zb] tacho rules too seriously. Write on a print out and forget about it, its as easy as that.And take no notice of Orangeboy it will be him that chucks the soap down at your feet!
Don’t knock it Roberto!!! 
robroy:
Don’t bother your arse mate, they can’t put you in front of a firing squad.
Another example of how drivers are getting stressed out over basically [zb] all
Don’t let the bar steads win by taking these pedantic stupid [zb] tacho rules too seriously. Write on a print out and forget about it, its as easy as that.And take no notice of Orangeboy it will be him that chucks the soap down at your feet!
Agreed people seem to get over worried over very minor things, if the rest of your tacho’s are pretty straight and you’ve made a note of what happened so unless you give them a load of attitude when stopped the DVSA are unlikely to give it second look.
The real problem seems to be the analysis companies and the junior management whose never been near a truck let alone driven one, but has been told to deal with all infringements and can’t see the differenc between running bent and a slight mishap.
tachograph:
No you probably won’t be covered unless it was a genuine emergency that could not have been foreseen.When you say you had to move “due to emergency access” it sounds like you was blocking a gate or entrance, was that the case ?
Of course he’ll be covered, stop making it sound like he’s committed the crime of the century, he had to interrupt his rest to move his truck, it doesn’t matter if it was a ‘real’ emergency or not, he was in the way and needed to move, it took a few seconds and zero miles for Gods sake! Do a printout and write on the back, job done, everybody happy, and when the analysis comes back with an infringement I’d be writing on that before signing it too.
Rentadent:
tachograph:
No you probably won’t be covered unless it was a genuine emergency that could not have been foreseen.When you say you had to move “due to emergency access” it sounds like you was blocking a gate or entrance, was that the case ?
Of course he’ll be covered, stop making it sound like he’s committed the crime of the century, he had to interrupt his rest to move his truck, it doesn’t matter if it was a ‘real’ emergency or not, he was in the way and needed to move, it took a few seconds and zero miles for Gods sake! Do a printout and write on the back, job done, everybody happy, and when the analysis comes back with an infringement I’d be writing on that before signing it too.
Exactly. Just read some of the comments on here brainwashed subscribers to the ■■■■ yourself philosophy of tachographs.
It’s like parking after hold ups, 2 choices park in first ■■■■ hole lay by, or go a few minutes over and write on printout ‘Stuck in traffic proceeded to first SUITABLE park, lay bys not fit for purpose imo’ had VOSA checks nothing said and guess what…
shock nobody died.
Common sense always prevails, done this job a while now and I don’t get pmt over crap like this.
Btw please don’t anybody come back with the old ‘bus load of kids’ scenario chestnut , yeh it could happen but it didn’t, and I could win the lottery tomorrow…but I won’t 
Years back exactly this happened to me. I was on an “11”. Moved 100 feet due some reason or other. I didn’t even write anything on the frisbee as my thinking was I know it’s wrong, writing something unless I lied won’t make it less wrong, not like I had a legally justifiable reason. It did show on the trace too. Tacho was looked at by the ministry that week on weighbridge and they said nothing.
I’m guessing, if you’ve a clean card and it was only a matter of feet you moved and close to beginning or end of rest, worse they’ll do is frown, tell you to not do it again and to restart your rest in future. Hardly crime of the century. Worse worse worse case (unlikely) a small(ish) on spot fine. You’ll get more bother from the himmlers that do tacho analysis.
good god I have put cards in back to front by error before and been ok, so doubt they will bother over a hundred yards.
panic down I reckon.
robroy:
Don’t bother your arse mate, they can’t put you in front of a firing squad.
Another example of how drivers are getting stressed out over basically [zb] all
Don’t let the bar steads win by taking these pedantic stupid [zb] tacho rules too seriously. Write on a print out and forget about it, its as easy as that.And take no notice of Orangeboy it will be him that chucks the soap down at your feet!
well said robroy,
Saw a lad at a firm nearly in tears other day as he had had to run over due to been in a hold up and gone 3 minutes over .
It’s total scaremongering and these young kids are getting the head filled full of [zb] and fear…