Traffic Rat:
Roymondo:
VOSA/DVSA cannot do anything about speeding offences. Police (in UK at least, no idea what the situation is elsewhere in Euroland) cannot do anything about speeding offences shown on tachograph records.
Not at the roadside, but if your involved in a Serious/Fatal collision the speed data will be examined, and the Tacho will have a Forensic Recalibration to obtain true data.
None of which would result in a prosecution for speeding - or to put it another way, how many drivers have ever, in the history of tachograph-equipped vehicles, been prosecuted (let alone convicted) for exceeding a speed limit simply as a result of someone examining a historic speed trace on a tacho chart or card?
Roymondo:
Traffic Rat:
Roymondo:
VOSA/DVSA cannot do anything about speeding offences. Police (in UK at least, no idea what the situation is elsewhere in Euroland) cannot do anything about speeding offences shown on tachograph records.
Not at the roadside, but if your involved in a Serious/Fatal collision the speed data will be examined, and the Tacho will have a Forensic Recalibration to obtain true data.
None of which would result in a prosecution for speeding - or to put it another way, how many drivers have ever, in the history of tachograph-equipped vehicles, been prosecuted (let alone convicted) for exceeding a speed limit simply as a result of someone examining a historic speed trace on a tacho chart or card?
It may add to the charges though. If you were doing over 60 when you run into the back of that car then they would like to get your for everything.
shep532:
Records for EU Drivers hours need only be kept for 12 months so in theory DVSA aren’t going to go much further back.
Unless the same records are used for compliance in record keeping for the WTD then it’s 2 years