0 a machine inside a vehicle such as a truck that records speed, distance travelled, and stopping periods, used to control the driver's legal hours of work
1 an electronic machine in a vehicle such as a truck that records speed, distance travelled, and stopping periods, and that is used to check that the driver is obeying rules about the number of hours they can work in a particular period:
He had several hundred tachograph cards available for fiddling the system.
Not only driving times, which are monitored using the tachograph, but also loading and unloading times should now be considered as working time for everyone.
But a fleet operator is free to apply for approval as a public tachograph centre, providing services on a commercial basis to all comers.
All drivers are limited to driving times and associated work monitored by the tachograph.
Consequently, the driving times and rest times currently guaranteed by tachographs are entirely sufficient.
In any event, these tachographs only measure driving time.
We should look at modifying and solidifying those tachograph requirements.
The figures for convictions for tampering with tachographs also include offences of tampering with the tachograph chart.
