Now here is an interesting one.
When my first digi card ran out it gives on the card the date of expiry, obviously. All well and good and the replacement shows the date the new one begins, the next day, all well and good.
Well when you put the new card in it gave me a date about three weeks before which I presume was the date it was issued as the previous duty end time??
So what I don’t get is how do I account for the time from the start date on my new card to the effective date when all the info is on my old card. In the end I put it down as rest! Dont happen to have a spare tacho to find out.
The question here is realy why doesn’t the new card start on the day it is valid from? Any ideas.
Sand Fisher:
So what I don’t get is how do I account for the time from the start date on my new card to the effective date when all the info is on my old card. In the end I put it down as rest! Dont happen to have a spare tacho to find out.
Instead of booking rest you should have used the ? symbol, the ? symbol is for time that cannot be accounted for on a tachograph.
For instance, if you was working but not driving for a few days you could not realistically be expected to put several days activities into a tachograph so you’d use the ? symbol to cover those days.
Sand Fisher:
The question here is realy why doesn’t the new card start on the day it is valid from?
To be honest I thought it did but it’s a long time since I’ve used a new card so…
tachograph:
Sand Fisher:
So what I don’t get is how do I account for the time from the start date on my new card to the effective date when all the info is on my old card. In the end I put it down as rest! Dont happen to have a spare tacho to find out.
Instead of booking rest you should have used the ? symbol, the ? symbol is for time that cannot be accounted for on a tachograph.
For instance, if you was working but not driving for a few days you could not realistically be expected to put several days activities into a tachograph so you’d use the ? symbol to cover those days.
Sand Fisher:
The question here is realy why doesn’t the new card start on the day it is valid from?
To be honest I thought it did but it’s a long time since I’ve used a new card so…
Thanks Tacho. I get your point, I had one duty to put in anyway and had I not been concerned about a ‘time-out’ might have come up with that one. I wondered if there had been a mistake in the card production.
I pressume the chip inputers dont know the start date of the card, but I dont know if that is a reasonable explanation.
A slightly different point but on the same subject.
Say you card expired today on 16th November and your new card started tomorrow (obviously).
What do you do if you are a night driver or working past midnight. Assuming existing card stops at 2359 and new one starts at 0001?
Stop the truck, change cards, do a manual entry or what?
Im pretty sure it spits your card out at midnight!
Swordsy:
Im pretty sure it spits your card out at midnight!
it does exactly that I left my old one in over a weekend that it expired, on Monday morning come in and it had been ejected new card in and crack on
Swordsy:
Im pretty sure it spits your card out at midnight!
So your bowling down the M6 at 56mph, card spat out is that reasonable excuse for pulling onto the hard shoulder to change cards?
Sand Fisher:
Swordsy:
Im pretty sure it spits your card out at midnight!
So your bowling down the M6 at 56mph, card spat out is that reasonable excuse for pulling onto the hard shoulder to change cards?
I very much doubt that would happen, I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that it carries on recording until the vehicle is stationary, I could be wrong though 