TDL102 wrote:
“How quickly can you use up your 4.5 driving?” - probably in about 4 and a half hours I should imagine, that or you have a time machine.
“Pull the limiter fuse… If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious ■■■■.”
Not to mention fines and prison time lol
K5Project:
TDL102 wrote:
“How quickly can you use up your 4.5 driving?” - probably in about 4 and a half hours I should imagine, that or you have a time machine.“Pull the limiter fuse… If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious [zb].”
Not to mention fines and prison time lol
Not without a flux capacitor 
OVLOV JAY:
K5Project:
TDL102 wrote:
“How quickly can you use up your 4.5 driving?” - probably in about 4 and a half hours I should imagine, that or you have a time machine.“Pull the limiter fuse… If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious [zb].”
Not to mention fines and prison time lolNot without a flux capacitor
I’ve got a 24v one
OVLOV JAY wrote:
K5Project wrote:
TDL102 wrote:
“How quickly can you use up your 4.5 driving?” - probably in about 4 and a half hours I should imagine, that or you have a time machine.“Pull the limiter fuse… If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious [zb].”
Not to mention fines and prison time lolNot without a flux capacitor
I’ve got a 24v one
Most Transport planners think every truck is fitted with one
Well I have just read right through this thread… According to the clock it took just under 5 minutes but it sure felt like 4.5hrs 
Mark
8wheels:
Well I can’t be certain of what it did exactly, it’s just that the short bursts of driving certainly didn’t equate to an hours worth of movement which is roughly what the machine took. Each movement forwards was about 5 -10 seconds followed by a up to 2 or 3 minutes of waiting for the next instalment.I’m not massively up on tacho regs as the only bit I ever have to worry about is to stop before doing 4.5h and usually max out at about 7 hours driving in a day. Minimum daily / weekly rest periods aren’t an issue either as I don’t burn the candle at both ends.
As far as tacho regs go, ‘driving’ time is just defined as being whatever the tacho says it is, which is strangely sensible.
It’s fundamentally impossible for a tacho to properly tell if someone is actually doing anything that a normal person would describe as ‘driving’, because the tacho only gets odometer pulses as an input, and so can’t tell the difference between ‘stopped in a layby’ and ‘stopped in heavy traffic / at a red light’. Different generations of automatic tachos have made different kind of crappy compromises here, but people who were used to generous interpretations where the mode went back to other-work as soon as the vehicle stopped moving forward are understandably annoyed by the different set of mistakes which the digital tachos make.
It’s the high-volume multi-drop people, with genuine bits of other-work in between lots of short drives who were most badly disadvantaged by the first-gen digital tachos, and last year’s changes probably improve their situation a lot, provided they spend at least 2 minutes of other-work on each drop.
I’m not against the digitach machine, overall I find it handy to see exactly what it will let me do without having to keep a kitchen timer running. My biggest gripe is that I really have to try and remember to switch it to rest in the evening, I try and make it t he last thing I do so it corresponds with my timesheet but it’s a lot easier to forget than when I had an analogue unit and would take the old one out and hang the next days on the key ready.
It seems a bit of an imprecise way of recording information that can be used in a legal way.