hitch:
to add to coffees comments
the trick with digi
is
wait for the minute to click over and then drive
Yep, that’s what I do if time is possibly going to be an issue on a particular day.
Coffeeholic:
ajdavis64:
And i know what you mean about it gaining driving time, stop start on the M25 had my driving time longer than i had actualy been on the road, ie from start to stop 2 1/2 hours, but actualy showed i had done 2 3/4 hours driving!! work that one out?Easily worked out, your tacho is broken and needs repairing. It can’t record more time than there are minutes in the period. If you start driving at say 50 seconds into a calendar minute and drive for 30 seconds then stop and don’t move for a while it will, at the end of the second minute count both of those minutes as driving. But, it does it at the end of the minute and while it has recorded 2 minutes driving for 30 seconds of driving those two minutes are actual calendar minutes and the tacho hasn’t managed increase the length of the day. If you start driving at 09:00 after a rest or break and encounter traffic delays on the M25 then stop driving at 11:30, the most driving it will show will be 2 hours and 30 minutes, and is likely to show less than that if any of the stops in the traffic lasted a minute or two. It cannot show 2 hours 45 minutes for that period of 2.5 hours and if it does the tacho requires repairing or replacing. It’s not in traffic jams where you lose time on the digi, you are more likely to nick some back in that situation, it is the short movements when shunting or queuing to enter or leave somewhere that can do it.
This is fast becoming the latest Driver’s Urban Myth and new favourite MMTM story with drivers claiming they drove for X amount of hours but the tacho said Y hours. If you know how the digi tacho records things you know this is either BS or a faulty tacho.
In the 3 or 4 years I have been using a digi I don’t think there has been a single day where the machine has cost me more than about 10 - 12 minutes in driving time, and most days less than that, but many many days where it has nicked me time back in traffic jams. I would do anything to avoid going back to an analouge tacho.
I agree I would hate to go back to analouge, where I work we have mostly analouge trucks, after 2 years on digi I cant stand them, thankfully the trucks are at the end of their working lives and should be gone by the end of this year. You can lose a few minutes a day (this varies on the type of work) but a few minutes is all, this can be got back by the fact you have more information available to you regarding your driving time, duty time and P.O.A, frankly in my opinion, the sooner the analouge tachos are gone the better.
1 when double manning you can’t have rest whilst moving but you can have a break so when changing over drivers no need to stop for a break
2 overspeed is not set by the company its an EU rule about exceeding 90kph for more than 60 seconds
3 as for POA I have no idea WTF that is 
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1 ok I mean’t the 45 minute break, on the old vehicle we could set the analogue to rest when the other person was driving but the digi automatically switches it over to Period Of Availbility, we got pulled and vosa did say they would take the first 45 min as rest but my arguement was why did they program the thing not to be switched to rest when it is legal
2 my understanding was that the law states 90km but it can be changed to suit company rules i.e. if they didn’t want there drivers to go over lets say 86km, maybe I am wrong I dunno I just had one that even if I just looked at a down hill the dam thing would go off, they put the tacho right next to my knee cap so I couldn’t see the exact 90KM so went off the dail on the dash and don’t get me wrong I ain’t one for speeding or anything but it I found it abit distracting having to watch the speed dail to the point of give or take 1KM
3 Period Of Availbility (pardon my spelling) it’s not rest so why program the digi to reset your driving information after you’ve had over 45 minutes of it?
Like the person said earlier they are quick to take £200 off you especailly in these hard times where alot of agency drivers (at my end of the country) are just about earning a little bit more than that a week after tax but yet don’t seem to care about these bugs in the system that could mean someone goes without eating or paying the mortguage for a month