Hello all,
Could someone put my mind at rest with an answer?
Currently doing some agency work and been asked to do a job incorporating a 3.5t wagon towing a trailer delivering mini diggers? Just wanting to know (as I’ve only drove 7.5t and above) should it be fitted with tacho equipment (it may have it fitted won’t find out until I turn up) as I came across this article on ‘moving’ on from DVLA,
'Soon some vehicles will no longer need to be fitted with tachograph recording equipment and their drivers will not have to comply with EC drivers’ hours rules, but with GB drivers’ hours rules instead. From 2 March 2015, a new European regulation EU 165/2014 (PDF 2 MB) will replace EEC 3821/85, setting out requirements for the construction, installation, use, testing, and control of tachograph recording equipment.
The new regulation increases the journey distance for exemptions from 50km to 100km from the operator’s base. This will apply to: Vehicles or vehicle trailer combinations with a maximum weight of 7,500kg which are:- Used to carry materials, equipment or machinery for the driver’s use in the course of their work, and when driving the vehicle is not the driver’s main activity.- Used to carry goods and are propelled by natural or liquefied gas or electricity. Vehicles used to carry live animals from farms to local markets or from markets to local farms or slaughterhouses’.
my answer would be yes as the trailer makes it require a tacho,police used to [maybe still do] stop you on east lancs if you was in a 4x4 with twin axle trailer it needed a tacho
I would say YES…because your delivering plant machinery, and are not going to use it yourself, the new regulations are for drivers who would carry a mini digger, and then once on site, would then use the mini digger to do the work required of it, then drive back to the depot.
As far as I can see from your post the regulation you’ve quoted is irrelevant to your situation, you’re being employed to deliver mini diggers so your main occupation is road haulage.
As the vehicle will be over 3.5t and you haven’t said anything that would suggest the job is tachograph exempt, the vehicle requires a tachograph to be fitted and used.
