i read on another thread about something called a V trace.
is this the mythological thing that vosa use to find out if someone has been running bent?
i know someone that was caught last year on the magnet, his lorry was in scania for the night. whilst it was in there they downloaded the card, the head, and the cpu.
he was charged with 42 counts of tachograph fraud. this was motorway camera evidence, but nothing to do with any information gained from downloading anything from the lorry, and there was certainly no mention of anything called a V trace.
he got off very lightly. they dropped 41 of the charges, as it was one offence caught by 42 cameras.
so if there was anything else they could use, then surely they would have.
The nearest trace to the centre hole on an analogue tachograph card is the V trace, a zig-zag line which changes direction every 5km. It is also known as the “distance trace”, as in this picture which I lifted from a post which member “Tachograph” made.
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By counting the number of peaks and troughs and comparing them with the claimed distance travelled, VOSA can see if the vehicle has been moved without a card in (unless there has been an interruption of electrical supply)
Many drivers load or tip “off the card”. The reality is that if they move the vehicle more than a handful of yards when doing this it can be detected, because the following day’s trace will not start off where the last one ended.
I got done for a ‘few’ counts of missing kms, detected by vosa by the gaps as shown on the tacho. It was all shown to me how they worked it out, but at no time did I hear the phrase v trace. Luckily though I got off on a technicality!
bigtruck:
If your tipping off the card and do say 2kms don’t put new card in till you’ve done 10 keeps the trace in the same area as the card that was removed,
But then there would be a V missing, that’s the whole point of the V trace.
