right some bloke was talking about an out of scope setting on the digi tacho today can someone tell me what this is ,when you can use it,how it is added to your daily/weekly hours and if you have to have your card in or out when out of scope
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right some bloke was talking about an out of scope setting on the digi tacho today can someone tell me what this is ,when you can use it,how it is added to your daily/weekly hours and if you have to have your card in or out when out of scopecheers
Out of scope means you’re working out of scope of EU regulations, for instance when you’re on domestic regulations you may still want to use the tachograph so you would set it on “out of scope”.
To use out of scope on a Siemens tachograph when you legitimately can you go into the menu and scroll down to “Entry Vehicle” then press “OK” then scroll down to “Vehicle OUT âž¡ begin” then press “OK”.
To put the tachograph back in-scope you scroll down to “Vehicle âž¡ OUT end”.
so what would you be able to use it for legally?
As tachograph says, you can use ‘out of scope’ whenever you are not under EU hours rules - for example, on domestic refuse collections (which are on domestic regulations). It’s really an alternative to driving without a card in - which you are legally entitled to do, but it saves a message about driving with a card on the VU and a gap in your records on your card (which may be unwanted if you drive on a mixture of EU and domestic hours).
If you had a 4x4 that was used for towing commercially it would need a tachograph. When it wasn’t being used with a trailer you would set it to out of scope to stop it driving you nuts because there’s no card in.