Ok so we can drive up to 10 hrs a day twice a week as long as we don’t go over our fortnightly total. I’ve never done ten hours in one day so was just wondering will it automatically show as an infringement on the tacho?
If you drive 2 x10 hr drives a week you won’t get an infringement, do you mean more than 2 ?
Won’t show as an infringment unless you go over 10 hrs driving . Or over 90 hours over 2 weeks.
From memory a Stoneridge Tacho (and probably others) will give a flashing warning 15 minutes before 4hr30 driving, and 15min before 9hr00 driving. If you take the correct breaks and go over the 9hr00 drive it will then flash again 15min before the 10hr drive limit.
As the others have said, and so long as you have taken the relevant breaks, there is no infringement involved. The Tacho will “know” that 9hr00 is the normal limit and will also accept that you are allowed two (up to) 10hr00 drives.
It is a good idea to be aware of your driving hours at all times, but tachos should warn you before you mess up.
I have very rarely crossed paths with Stoneridge Tachos, I think the count down time vs the count up time of a VDO is an annoyance when you move from what you are used to.
The newer trucks I think mostly provide tacho info on the dash or touchscreen somewhat clearer than from the tacho screen. I’ve been in volvos for a while now so fairly out of touch with the latest in other brands.
The truck I have today gives a 3 page breakdown on your tacho info, which I will post up as photos when it wakes up and shows something worthwhile.
The VDO unit itself has 8 screens of info, many of which I don’t use, some of the info shown I’d be taking a bit of a (educated?) guess at, so in that vein I’ll post those on another thread so collectively we may identify all the detail shown…
Interesting pictures and all new to me.
I strongly believe that drivers should have a good idea as to what their driving, work, and rest hrs are without relying too much on warnings. Info screens like you show should make that much easier.
Just as satnav is a brilliant tool for drivers, it needs to be used alongside an awareness of where you are and what route it is suggesting to you.
Me too. I remember when a chunky clock with a key at the top was cutting edge. 
Snap! I started in the last days of the older log-book when each driving stint had a start and end point written in longhand. The newer logbook with graph paper was a technological advance.
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I have yet to lose or break my digicard, but if that day comes and I am working for a week without until the new one arrives, keeping on top of weekly totals etc will be a new challenge to get used to.
With no digi card, assuming only one vehicle per day, doing a print out for the truck will be a good help.
I had the habit of putting a quick daily record: place, start/end times, drive time, start/end miles in a small paper diary, plus a rough count of drops/collections.
When I mentioned being aware of one’s hours I meant that I always had a rough idea of when I would be due a break, and how close I was to my daily, and week/fortnight limits.
Easier to plan a break at a good coffee shop rather the warning flashing up just after you have passed one! 
Sorry to play the Oldie card, but I go back before even logbooks, graphed or otherwise. Just sheets of paper printed off to their own design by individual hauliers with no sequential numbering thus, if a certain ‘leniency’ was required, one sheet could be substituted for another. Often both to be carried and sorted later before handing in according to whether or not a ‘silent check’ (a Ministry man hiding behind a hedge jotting down reg. numbers and times) had been suspected. Happy to say I never guessed wrong. 
Cue the only bloke here I know is older than me. GOM? 
It’s a bit more than a help it’s a legal requirement, if your driver card is lost stolen or whatever you must do a vehicle printout when taking over the vehicle and another vehicle printout when giving up the vehicle, if driving one vehicle for the entire shift it means vehicle printouts at the start and end of the shift.
You need to write your name or driver card/licence number on each printout and sign them.
You can calculate the daily driving time, other work and breaks/POA from these printouts and keep them in a notebook.
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Still is if you work a manual print out! 