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: --
Both the speed limiter device and the tachograph fitted to this vehicle were working.
Despite the use of limiters, and also the use of tachographs, speed limits are widely ignored by coaches and by heavy goods vehicles.
This is quite an undertaking, and the cogent advice here is that a tachograph is necessary.
The most important of these are that mechanical recorders (tachographs) should be a statutory requirement on all goods vehicles exceeding 30 cwt.
The tachograph enables people to sec how well a driver is driving in certain conditions; it can prove that a driver continually accelerates and brakes.
The fact is that tampering takes place, both with the tachograph and with the limiters.
Most forms of tampering with tachographs, including those referred to in the programme, are readily detectable.
The figures for convictions for tampering with tachographs also include offences of tampering with the tachograph chart.
