The vehicle I’ve been driving for the last couple of days has the wrong registration on the digi tacho. The vehicle was bought second hand and had previously been on a private reg. I pointed the error to the office and they said they were aware of it and it was ok.
Is there any specific law or regulation being broken? I assume the company we bought this vehicle from now have their private reg on another vehicle so there are 2 tachos recording the same information.
Each head unit will be different, and once vehicle details are checked it will show what reg it was previously registered as so drive on and don’t worry, I’m sure they can make an appt to get it sorted at some stage.
I do not know is my honest answer but i would guess it is nickable by Vosa.
It should have been reprogrammed and calabrated before going on the road. So I would be guessing a fpn for out of calibration tacho. Or that king of thing.
Like I say only guessing will be interested to find out for sure
mucker85:
The vehicle I’ve been driving for the last couple of days has the wrong registration on the digi tacho. The vehicle was bought second hand and had previously been on a private reg. I pointed the error to the office and they said they were aware of it and it was ok.Is there any specific law or regulation being broken? I assume the company we bought this vehicle from now have their private reg on another vehicle so there are 2 tachos recording the same information.
Defect the vehicle. The tachograph must be recalibrated when a vehicle is re-registered. Until this is done the tachograph is effectively out of calibration.
Paragraph 256 of Annex 1B of the latest consolidated version (01.10.2011) of Regulation 3821/85 refers (see page 80 of the PDF):
Periodic inspections of the equipment fitted to the vehicles shall take place after any repair of the equipment, or after any alteration of the characteristic coefficient of the vehicle or of the effective circumference of the tyres, or after equipment UTC time is wrong by more than 20 minutes, or when the VRN has changed, and at least once within two years (24 months) of the last inspection.
VRN is vehicle registration number.
Once the recalibration is done and the VRN updated, the tachograph will not need recalibration for another 24 months.
Ah ha, cheers I’ll give that a go.
We had private plates put on all our trucks and every digitacho had to be recalibrated with the new number.
I have been caught with a tacho out of calibration, the analogue clock had found itself 12 hrs out (i wasnt to know, 12pm looks like 12am and id never driven the wagon before) so the chart wasnt right when the copper checked it. Turned out the tacho was overdue its yearly inspection, was given a £120 fine for the boss to pay.
Pretty sure if Vosa had found me running 12 hrs out rather than the copper it could have been worse.
rob22888:
I have been caught with a tacho out of calibration, the analogue clock had found itself 12 hrs out (i wasnt to know, 12pm looks like 12am and id never driven the wagon before) so the chart wasnt right when the copper checked it. Turned out the tacho was overdue its yearly inspection, was given a £120 fine for the boss to pay.Pretty sure if Vosa had found me running 12 hrs out rather than the copper it could have been worse.
It is part of the drivers check to ensure the clock is at the right setting, it is fairly easy to check. The top of the pear is 12 noon.
The top of the card has midnight on the left and noon to the right