Can you be done for speeding if it shows on your tacho that you were above the legal limit ■■
Twice on a run I was pushed downhill over the limit, not for any length of time 
I would expect that it isnt enough to be charged with just a tacho as evidence, but who knows in this crazy world we live in 
i spoke to a scottish once he told me of a guy who was stopped on the a1 one sunday afternoon just for a spot check by the police they looked at his tacho and saw that he had been driving at 50 mph all the time apart from the cameras where so they did him for speeding on that.
dont know if its true but ill always stick to 40 on the a1 up to edinburgh or coming south plus there always seems to be police on there with laser guns looking for speeders
Darb:
Can you be done for speeding if it shows on your tacho that you were above the legal limit ■■Twice on a run I was pushed downhill over the limit, not for any length of time
I would expect that it isnt enough to be charged with just a tacho as evidence, but who knows in this crazy world we live in
As far as I’m aware you cannot be prosecuted for speeding on tachograph evidence alone.
When you say you was pushed over the speed limit do you mean the speed limit for the road you were on or do you mean you exceeded 60 mph.
i thought you could be done on the current day just from the tacho, but it might be ■■■■■■■■?
stevie
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Darb:
Can you be done for speeding if it shows on your tacho that you were above the legal limit ■■Twice on a run I was pushed downhill over the limit, not for any length of time
I would expect that it isnt enough to be charged with just a tacho as evidence, but who knows in this crazy world we live in
As far as I’m aware you cannot be prosecuted for speeding on tachograph evidence alone.
When you say you was pushed over the speed limit do you mean the speed limit for the road you were on or do you mean you exceeded 60 mph.
I think it was about 65 on a motorway
I wasnt at that speed for any length of time, just up to it then straight back down, although it happened twice ( first drive fully loaded = lesson learnt )
a tachograph chart can’t be used as primary evidence to secure a conviction for speeding.
it can be used to backup other evidence, like a speed camera.
Darb:
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Darb:
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I think it was about 65 on a motorway
I wasnt at that speed for any length of time, just up to it then straight back down, although it happened twice ( first drive fully loaded = lesson learnt )
If you rectified the speed immediately I wouldn’t have thought you’d get done for it even if the chart/card could be used without other evidence.
As it’s a speed of over 60 mph you’ll probably get an infringement from your employer for it though 
Having said that if the speed was rectified immediately it most likely would not show up on a digital tachograph as an offence anyway, it would show as an over-speed of 00:00 time so you shouldn’t even get an infringement if you’re on a digital tachograph.
You can’t be prosecuted for speeding on tacho evidence alone. However, you can be in trouble with the Traffic Commissioner and lose your LGV entitlement for a while from the speeds recorded on a tacho chart, as more than a few drivers have found to their cost.
If your operating centre is several miles from the nearest dual carriageway or motorway but your charts regulalry show you doing speeds in excess of 40 mph just after leaving or shortly before arriving at the depot the TC can and will look after your LGV entitlement for a couple of months. You aren’t actually being done for speeding in that situation, no points on the licence for instance, but you are being penalised for not being a fit and proper person to have the LGV entitlement on the licence.
I know someone who was done in Austria for speeding in Germany the day before on there tacho
Not me btw
I’m assuming if you are involved in an accident and your tacho shows you were speeding they will throw the book at you regardless of whose fault it was.
animal:
I know someone who was done in Austria for speeding in Germany the day before on there tachoNot me btw
coffeeholic and a few of the euro boys will know the way it works out there but i seem to remember that the french or germans could do you off the tacho. one of our more learned posters may be able to confirm/rubbish this recollection and put us right. 
glenman:
animal:
I know someone who was done in Austria for speeding in Germany the day before on there tachoNot me btw
coffeeholic and a few of the euro boys will know the way it works out there but i seem to remember that the french or germans could do you off the tacho. one of our more learned posters may be able to confirm/rubbish this recollection and put us right.
It was a favourite of the Germans at the Waidhaus border going into Czech. As with most borders in Bavaria in those days you had to produce two charts when doing your paperwork so they could see you had taken your daily rest. In those days the last stretch to the border was national road, with a 60 kmh limit for trucks. So if you had been trotting along at more than 60 kmh they would see it on the tacho and fine you, I’ve still got the receipt here somewhere from one occasion when I was fined 30 DM for doing 80 kmh on that stretch, I was in a hurry and it was worth the fine, which was about £12 then.
Because they were only really looking for the daily rest period but would do you for other stuff they found I got into the habit of changing disc when I parked up the night before hitting the border. I would record my rest on that and use that chart to set off the following morning. I would hand that chart over first when doing the papers and when they saw the rest period on it they wouldn’t ask for the previous chart. It minimised the chance of them finding something wrong. They would stamp up the back of the chart I had taken from the head to explain the gap in the trace should I be stopped later in the day.
Well you didn’t used to get infringements for it, I and probably 95% of other drivers used to think ‘whatever you lose uphill you make back down it’!
I did lose a few discs somehow though!! Well it was windy in that yard! 
not sure on being done for speeding, but i regulary have speeding flash up on my tacho when carrying weight being pushed, ive never had a infringement for any of them,