Here is the scenario I hope somebody can help.
Drive a digi tacho vehicle for say 2 hours and finish at 11.30 pm. Take a printout and remove card. Next, change vehicles, put card in new digi tacho vehicle and start driving at say 11.45pm. Continue driving till 2am to finish working shift. When I try to remove the card I am asked for 24hr day. If I say no I do not get a print out or my card back, if I say yes I get a printout and my card back but driving time and mileage only start from midnight and driving time and mileage done from inserting the card up untill midnight are not counted on the printout. I am sure all the details are on the card and on the digi tacho but why is this missing time not printed?
Hope this makes sense, or am I doing somethig wrong?
James
the digi works on a 24 hr cycle 0000 to 2359
to get the print out you need you’ll have to print two days off the card
you can do this in the print menu ( on the stoneridge bags of muck fitted in our scani’s )
go through print menu till you find the print date option and then print the two dates but make sure there’s lots of paper coz it’ll be about 3 ft long
thanks for the quick reply,fortunately this has only happened to me once but I can see from your reply that the same thing will happen if you do a night shift starting and finishing on different days. Ho hum i will now have to find out how to get to the menu option to print out the two days work. (I assume you would still answer yes to the 24h period for printing?)
James
jimuck:
thanks for the quick reply,fortunately this has only happened to me once but I can see from your reply that the same thing will happen if you do a night shift starting and finishing on different days. Ho hum i will now have to find out how to get to the menu option to print out the two days work. (I assume you would still answer yes to the 24h period for printing?)
James
i’m sure when it prompts you for 24hr then thats where you get the option to scroll down and choose another time period.
As far as I can remember when you work nights and take a 24 hour printout in the morning, it will show the previous days work plus the morning up to the finish time,
If you want a printout for another day hit the OK button whilst your card is still in the tacho and you will go straight to the printout menu, I think you need to choose 24 hour printout and then scroll down to the date that you want the printout for, I think you should be able to do a printout for any dates still on your card, as far as I can remember you can only do printouts for 24 hours or a weekly printout, I haven’t used a digital tacho for some months so I could be wrong about this but I believe It’s correct.
Why do so many drivers seem to want print outs of work done in digi tach trucks, is it because they work for agencies who want proof of hours worked?
mikermhh:
Why do so many drivers seem to want print outs of work done in digi tach trucks, is it because they work for agencies who want proof of hours worked?
Some company’s ask for them, sometimes they want copies of them handed in each day just as some company’s ask drivers to hand in a copy of the chart each day, not necessarily just agency drivers either, some of the larger firms will have someone supposedly checking copies of printouts/charts on a daily basis, but yes I would think most firms would want a printout from agency drivers who aren’t regularly at the firm.
But if your working for a large company who wants to check your daily work why not just put your card in card reader and let the computer do the rest, sounds a lot easier and quicker than trying to read a paper print out! And will save another rain forest somewhere too.
Well I worked as an agency driver on a Exel/DHL contract for over a year and all the drivers had to copy the charts onto the back of the time sheet which was handed in daily or at the end of a trip, when the fleet was renewed half the fleet had digital tachos, the system just continued with us having to copy the printouts onto the time sheet, office staff weren’t always there to download from the cards when drivers finished their shifts.
They had someone who’s job it was to check the copies for driver infringements and presumably that you’d worked the hours on the time sheet even though the charts and readouts would later be sent away to be analysed.
To be honest I always thought it was probably for appearance as much as anything else.
Anyway … what’s the destruction of the rain forest compared to impressing vosa 