MrHappy:
Dodgy are we to assume that you have decided to stay on with this company then? Sounds like they’re feeding you a bit of old ■■■■■■■■ about the digi card to get you to stay on. If you can tell me where abouts in London you are I may be able to point you towards a more professional outfit.
Yeah, there’s Nockem & Leggit Haulage, Novack & Goode Couriers and Lion & Cheeta’s Logistics…
The Sarge:
MrHappy:
Dodgy are we to assume that you have decided to stay on with this company then? Sounds like they’re feeding you a bit of old ■■■■■■■■ about the digi card to get you to stay on. If you can tell me where abouts in London you are I may be able to point you towards a more professional outfit.Yeah, there’s Nockem & Leggit Haulage, Novack & Goode Couriers and Lion & Cheeta’s Logistics…
Haha, I did only say MAY be able to Sarge, although it sounds as though you’d be pushed to find anyone as shady as this lot sounds.
dieseldave:
Carryfast:
…, but I never saw a tacho on any truck where any one had removed the key to open it .
Hi Carryfast,
That’s possibly because the company you worked for at the time (as from 1st Aug 1980) had taken the option to use the tachograph straight away.
For a while (a year or two?) it was an option to carry on using the old log-book, but if that option was used, there was (IIRC) a 450km limit per day.
The firm I worked for at the time took the option to carry on with log-books, and the tachograph keys were removed. According to the TM, they removed the keys to the office for safe keeping.
In my case Dave I was using log books as a council driver all the time I was there between 1980-1985.The guvnors did give us the option of using tachographs depending on which depot and/or job we were employed on.If I remember right I think the drivers employed there on the bulk refuse multilift job used tachos while I was using a log book driving the same trucks but using anything on the multi lift from a bulker to a flat to a tanker body.
But the first time I used a tacho it was just a case of sort it out by guess work having told the employers that I knew what I was doing when they asked me as that seemed to be part of the requirement in getting the job and from the bit of knowledge that I’d picked up by curiosity in checking out the workings of the one fitted in that old Clydesdale which was a Kienzle I think which is why I made that point about the differences of using a Veeder Root one. 
TTX boy:
Just out of curiosity…do the armed forces HGVs drivers have to adeer to Tacho laws and WTD ■■?That would be a disaster, troops on the front line needing ammo and the driver of the ammo truck stopped for a
45 min break!
No tachos in military vehicles, you drive til you drop or stop what ever comes first, on exercises we often used to drive 36-48hrs non stop although our wreckers were always double manned
And this is why they need to take away implied rights.