I had a problem the other day that ended up loosing me half an hour as I didn’t want to get a fine. Heres what happened
45ish mins driving get to my first drop 50 mins early
15mins break
30mins POA
I forgot that POA messes with driving time and got to 3:20 hours when I suddenly remembered from reading it on here somewhere and found somewhere to take my 30 min break to start my next 4.5 hours
So another 3:30 driving (4:15 total)
30 mins break
So a total of 45 mins breaks taken in the correct way after over 4 hours driving. Should be fine.
I hit the road but the tacho is still reading over 3 hours driving and not reseting back to 00:01
Go round the block 10 mins driving (4:25 total I think) sweating at this point as my goal is to go a year without vosa telling me off.
Stop another 30 mins break just to be on the safe side. Tried to phone someone who could tell me weather ignoring the tacho as I know that I have had my breaks would be OK but they never got back to me.
So, why did the tacho not start the next chunk of driving time?
If I had ignored it and not had another 30 mins break would it have recorded an infraction?
If it did record one would I have been able to do a print out and show it to Mr Vosa and get out of it by telling him whoever wrote the code for the digi tacho boxes must have been living in the 80s when computer tech was new as my phone would be able to handle such a simple task without getting it all messed up?
Personally I don’t think I’m ever going to use POA again as I just can’t be bothered with the hastle.
Also who the hell thought it’d be a good idea for POA to mess with driving time? Who ever wrote the code is an idiot! I don’t care if its not PC to say it, they are.
I’ll stop ranting out loud now…