The importance of tachograph analysis and risks

Any transporter would ultimately risk its Operator license if he or she would not continuously be committed to compliance, safety and fair competition. This is what all official transporters have signed for by law. One significant inescapable way to keep this promise concerns the use of tachograph data. To analyse tachograph data shows a commitment to know to what extent one obeys the EU drivers’ hours and tachograph rules (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006) as well as to know on what issues one can improve its compliance.

The need to analyse tachograph data and to ensure that drivers comply with the EU Driving Hours rules started since analogue tachographs became mandatory for all HGV vehicles in the EU in the 1980s. By recording speed, distance and driver activities the tachograph provides an accurate picture of what a driver has been doing and whether or not it has infringed the law. With the occurrence of digital tachographs and the regulations regarding digital tachographs transport managers and road transport operators are more than ever forced to ensure compliance with legislation in order to avoid hefty tachograph fines. Digital tachograph files analysis software is an extremely useful which assist fleet managers and operators to keep a fully compliant legal archive. The more so, we are currently entering the era of the smart tachograph or tachograph 3.0, a new generation of tachographs able to record even more parameters, like timestamped GPS-locations. Read more about the Smart Tachograph.