The new renaults we have all do this.I pull up to gate at my destination and put my mode onto rest, hoping to get a 15 in.I get called into warehouse after 12 minutes rest.I drive about 50 yards at slow speed into warehouse and then turn off engine, and put mode to rest again.I look at my tacho screen five minutes later and it shows 17 mins rest??.A printout does not show the drivetime from gate to warehouse.Anyone know why?.
Im not complaining , it will work to my advantage now i know i can do
this.
Does it not register drivetime on these new tachos if:
A) your speed is under a certain mph
b) distance travelled ( i did about 50 yards)
c) the time it took to move from gate to warehouse ( less than a minute)
Renault for the win. Hate it when you have to move ten feet when your 5 mins off completing a half hour then after your loaded have to pull outside for a fresh half an hour, pain in the ■■■.
It’s a Mk2 Chris. That’s what they do, not too sure about the exact timings but iirc you can move for up to 30 seconds without leaving a tacho trace. Much better than the not fit for purpose Mk1 imo. My driving time after going back to Mk1 from Mk2 has increased by an average of 10 hours per week, with no increase in mileage!
Yep, I’ve managed to get a 15 in on the M6 and on the M1 before. Good if you’re in a queue as well and have to keep shunting down. Also saves a lot on your driving time in traffic as well as it will stay crossed hammers/other work if you’re crawling and stopping.
So if it takes me about two minutes to reverse out of warehouse, then drive round to the exit to continue my break…without showing any drive time, i would back out of warehouse within 30 secs, put on break, turn off engine, turn back on, drive round side of warehouse, turn off, turn on, drive to exit and park up, put on break and finish off rest of break.
You would need to break the two minutes up into 4 seperate drives to stop it registering. The 30 seconds out would be ok. No idea if there is any time required from stopping for the clock to reset to zero. As its a portion of a minute i suppose you need to wait for 30 seconds before you can move again to stop it registering the first 30 seconds drive, 1 second over though!
LeedsChris:
So if it takes me about two minutes to reverse out of warehouse, then drive round to the exit to continue my break…without showing any drive time, i would back out of warehouse within 30 secs, put on break, turn off engine, turn back on, drive round side of warehouse, turn off, turn on, drive to exit and park up, put on break and finish off rest of break.
Hmmm not sure about that scenario. I have found that it does in fact interrupt it when I have started to reverse after I’ve initially driven forwards when trying to keep it on break. I’m not sure why this is, maybe because during that second you stop going forwards to engage reverse it goes back to cross hammers.
Try reversing out the warehouse whilst still on break and then stopping on break before you drive forwards again?? Try leaving it a minute or so as well.
I was under the understanding that it needed to be over 30 seconds in a minute to register, so in theory you could drive the last 29 seconds from one minute and the first 29 seconds of the next minute, so you’ve actually driven for nearly a full minute without it registering any drive time
Darb:
I was under the understanding that it needed to be over 30 seconds in a minute to register, so in theory you could drive the last 29 seconds from one minute and the first 29 seconds of the next minute, so you’ve actually driven for nearly a full minute without it registering any drive time
I could be wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time
That is also my understanding of how the new generation of digi tachos work
Each fixed minute records what is done most in that time
we have them in our new xf’s, they record what action was done for the majority of a minute, i.e.- 29 seconds driving and 31 seconds other work will record a minute of other work or vice versa.
we can get into work, fuel up then couple up and get through the gate, get out and close the gate without registering any drive time at all, having travelled approx 200 yds.
Here’s an idea, wait till you’ve finshed break, then have a play tacho, moving forward, back etc. that way you won’t have to restart break if it starts recording driving/ other work, if that makes sense…
I know a bloke who got an infringement. He had an old mk 1 tacho in the morning he would do other work. put his card in do an entry then drive round the yard refuel and then book a 15 min break.
He then changed vehicle and got done for insufficient break for doing the same thing he had done for years. Reason being his drive to the fuel pump is less than 30 seconds so no dri e was recorded. Meaning he had a 15 min wtd break but not a driving break as no driving had taken place
