scanny77:
add another one to the list. overnight trunk from livingston to trafford park. almost 9 hours driving (plus waiting and swapping trailer = 12 hours) without a break
got there on 4 hours 23 driving, waited for a while, dropped my trailer and parked the unit. turned the engine off and because it was dark i turned the ignition on to light the panel. switched to break, ignition off and went for a smoke and coffee etc. came back and checked my time which was 49 minutes WORK
apparently it defaults to work when you turn the ignition off. since when can a machine tell what i am doing? why does it default to anything? i only turned the ignition on so i could see the mode that i was changing to FFS
to me your driving to close to the limits , at 4 hrs stop and have a 45 , you cant just keep getting infringements every 5 mins and blame it on the digi-tacho, im sorry its you whos getting them by running to the limit.
at 4hrs im now looking for somewhere to park , it gives me half a hour and even then its not easy , ive had them, but not many , but theyve been down to me not the digi, a lad the other day told me hed drove for 4 hrs 45 mins, it wasnt his fault he couldnt find anywhere to park, hed started looking at 4 hrs 25 driving
at this rate though you wont have to worry about infringements for much longer, your worry will be finding a job where you dont need a h.g.v lisence
i agree with you ady and would normally apply the same principles however, the tesco one was out of my control. i was not aware of an incident until i was caught in the tail back between the previous junction and the one i wanted. i would not have gone over if my time hadnt been eaten into by the incident.
last night was a trunk and i knew where i was going so no worries there. im on the same trunk tonight and i am now aware that the tacho defaults itself so i will not get an infringement. i didnt run over my driving time, the tacho did not record 49 minutes of break because i turned the ignition off thinking that the mode would remain as i had just set it to break. but it changed itself to crossed hammers which was unknown to me at the time
If you have got an infringement for driving over 4.30 because of an accident/incident/delay on the road, write on the infringement, the reason, if you want write it on the tacho or printout with time, road number and reason then do so, it is no big deal unless you do it every day as it seems. Drove 4.30 without time to drop the trailer, drove 4.23 and then dropped trailer. Almost 9 hour drive.
TBH I have never known a tacho to default to other work when you turn off the ignition, unless it was an input mistake.
Wheel Nut:
You do seem to make things hard for yourself.
If you have got an infringement for driving over 4.30 because of an accident/incident/delay on the road, write on the infringement, the reason, if you want write it on the tacho or printout with time, road number and reason then do so, it is no big deal unless you do it every day as it seems. Drove 4.30 without time to drop the trailer, drove 4.23 and then dropped trailer. Almost 9 hour drive.
TBH I have never known a tacho to default to other work when you turn off the ignition, unless it was an input mistake.
I love the comment about the French though
We have some 57 reg Merc 2546ās which default to break every time you switch the ignition off. When it is dark you set it to other work and then find it has changed. All our other Mercs Volvos and Dafs default to other work and remain at the until you change it.
waddy640:
We have some 57 reg Merc 2546ās which default to break every time you switch the ignition off. When it is dark you set it to other work and then find it has changed. All our other Mercs Volvos and Dafs default to other work and remain at the until you change it.
Some of the new, recently fitted digitachos fitted to new trucks, change themselves to break when you switch the ignition off.
Until this post, I havenāt heard of digitachos that change themselves to other work when you switch the ignition off.
Wheel Nut:
You do seem to make things hard for yourself.
If you have got an infringement for driving over 4.30 because of an accident/incident/delay on the road, write on the infringement, the reason, if you want write it on the tacho or printout with time, road number and reason then do so, it is no big deal unless you do it every day as it seems. Drove 4.30 without time to drop the trailer, drove 4.23 and then dropped trailer. Almost 9 hour drive.
TBH I have never known a tacho to default to other work when you turn off the ignition, unless it was an input mistake.
I love the comment about the French though
We have some 57 reg Merc 2546ās which default to break every time you switch the ignition off. When it is dark you set it to other work and then find it has changed. All our other Mercs Volvos and Dafs default to other work and remain at the until you change it.
i was driving a 58 plate axor. apparently the day shift were getting a lot of problems with the tacho mode defaulting to rest so they had the VU changed so it defaulted to other work instead. the one i had last night, another 58 plate axor, was fine although i took the key out and used the interior light to see the screen instead of backlight. i did notice when i got in the truck that the mode was set to break though but i cant think of a reason why a driver would switch to break after parking up
