Evening all, right without sounding like a total noob what’s the crack when driving two different trucks in one shift, with regards to my digi card I mean? I’m working tomorrow morning and doing one run in my usual truck then coming back swapping for another truck and doing a run in that. Is it just a case of ejecting your card as normal and using it in the other vehicle or do you have to do something special with it 
only my 3rd week in the job and still trying to take everything in when it comes to the tacho side of things. Cheers
When you eject card press 24 hour day NO then just put card in to new truck
Just swop cards over. And say you do 3 hours driving in 1 truck then swop trucks . The disaply In new truck will still show done 3 hours hours driving. So no need to worry .
When I did that the tacho whinged about swapping card from one tru…sorry…puddlejumper, to another within a a minute. Nothing happened though, so…
Brilliant cheers guys.
steviespain:
When I did that the tacho whinged about swapping card from one tru…sorry…puddlejumper, to another within a a minute. Nothing happened though, so…
Can do that if the clocks are not the same. If the clock in truck 2 is 2-3 minutes behind the clock in truck 1 the tacho head will not allow an overlap so throws a hissy fit till the overlap has passed.
OP you may need to do a manual entry to have a complete & accurate record of your days work.
Need check both trucks had there clocks changed. to correct time as if on didn’t get changed last weekend could cause all kinds of trouble
edd1974:
Need check both trucks had there clocks changed. to correct time as if on didn’t get changed last weekend could cause all kinds of trouble
They all record in UTC so it wont affect anything.
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edd1974:
Need check both trucks had there clocks changed. to correct time as if on didn’t get changed last weekend could cause all kinds of trouble
Don’t cause any trouble it records in uct time it never changes.
edd1974:
Need check both trucks had there clocks changed. to the correct time as if one didn’t get changed last weekend it could cause all kinds of trouble
That’s nonsense. The time showed on the front is irrelevant. All times are GMT (or UTC as it’s called in Eurospeak). That does not change, but it’s possible for there to be a few minutes difference between the two trucks. Best to allow a five-minute gap.
I’m staggered at how many drivers don’t know about a tacho recording in UTC.
Swapping from Digi to analogue causes problems if you don’t manually record the time between somewhere. Got fined for it myself. I had to quickly swap trucks and transfer a load due to a puncture.
Popped card, spent 20 minutes moving my cab junk and the load, strapping up before filling out the paper tacho. Even wrote that I’d swapped trucks due to a puncture… just didn’t account for the 20 minutes.
Well within my hours, but a small line of ink missing from the back cost me £200.
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I just take card out of one, walk to the other, put card in then do a manual entry to input other work mode for the time between taking card out to putting card back in.
DickyNick:
I just take card out of one, walk to the other, put card in then do a manual entry to input other work mode for the time between taking card out to putting card back in.
Simple as that ^^^^^^. Only thing I’d add is note the display time on vehicle number one, if vehicle number two is a minute or two behind then simply wait until the time elapses and matches before inserting card.No reason for dramas.
DickyNick:
I just take card out of one, walk to the other, put card in then do a manual entry to input other work mode for the time between taking card out to putting card back in.
^^^^^^this…
I was doing overtime loading bulk tippers on Saturday morning and used my card in 8 different vehicles …hell of a lot easier now than pre-digital days and having to use 3 cards coz I’d used up all the spaces