Can anyone tell me if people are getting infringements for taking EXACTLY 15,30,45, then driving off. Thanks in advance for replies.
The advice is ALWAyS take at least 1 min over.
If the tacho has said you’ve had 15,30 or 45 then that’s what you’ve had and what it has recorded but like ckm1981 says, its best to take an extra minute and if you feel so under pressure that you think you have to go as soon as its hit 45 then I’d be looking for another job because thats just ridiculous.
On an analogue Tacho I always gave it a few extra minutes but on a digi I usually go on the minute, not because I’m under any pressure to, I simply choose to.
Boris1971:
Can anyone tell me if people are getting infringements for taking EXACTLY 15,30,45, then driving off. Thanks in advance for replies.
No.
Drive off most nights as soon as it clicks onto 45 never had a problem.
I go as soon as it shows.
Tachos don’t usually GIVE me extra minutes so I don’t expect it to TAKE either 
I’ve never had a problem taking 15/30/45’s. Sometimes as soon as it ticks that last minute over I’m off. No infringements for it have ever come up
Boris1971:
Can anyone tell me if people are getting infringements for taking EXACTLY 15,30,45, then driving off. Thanks in advance for replies.
You shouldn’t have any problems because the machine records completed minutes. So for the first 59 seconds it says 0 rest. Only when you’ve completed that minute will it display 1. So if your tacho displays 45 minutes then you have met the minimum legal requirements. As others have said though, there’s no harm in taking an extra minute or two to make sure. If your employer complains, find a new one.
Boris1971:
Can anyone tell me if people are getting infringements for taking EXACTLY 15,30,45, then driving off. Thanks in advance for replies.
No, drivers do not get infringements for recording only the minimum legally required breaks. But they might get one if they e.g. took 16 (or more) minutes for their first break and then relied on the tacho to tell them when they had taken sufficient second break to total 45 minutes…
Roymondo:
Boris1971:
Can anyone tell me if people are getting infringements for taking EXACTLY 15,30,45, then driving off. Thanks in advance for replies.No, drivers do not get infringements for recording only the minimum legally required breaks. But they might get one if they e.g. took 16 (or more) minutes for their first break and then relied on the tacho to tell them when they had taken sufficient second break to total 45 minutes…
Well seeing as breaks only count in 15 blocks, if you took a 15 then it’s not rocket science to know you need a 30 next to cover drive time .
I never rely on tacho to add my breaks up only for it to tell me how much drive time I have left
ckm1981:
The advice is ALWAyS take at least 1 min over.
When using a digi tacho, the advice is to go by what the tacho has recorded. In the case of earlier units, this may well entail going at least a minute over, but not normally so with more recent tachos.
I always record at least 47 minutes although quite often it’s quite a bit more than that 
Have worked for some companies that insist on 50 minutes.
Roymondo:
Boris1971:
Can anyone tell me if people are getting infringements for taking EXACTLY 15,30,45, then driving off. Thanks in advance for replies.No, drivers do not get infringements for recording only the minimum legally required breaks. But they might get one if they e.g. took 16 (or more) minutes for their first break and then relied on the tacho to tell them when they had taken sufficient second break to total 45 minutes…
On mine it won’t register the full 45 until at least 30 minutes has past, that is if I took a 15 before this.
ckm1981:
The advice is ALWAyS take at least 1 min over.
Which isn’t in fact advice, it’s ■■■■■■■■. 
That ‘advice’ is only given by people who don’t understand how a tacho works.
When the display shows 15, 30, or 45 minutes then that’s what has been recorded as break and you can if you wish drive at that point. It won’t suddenly revert to 14, 29 or 44.
You cannot get an infringement for recording the minimum required break.
Coffeeholic:
ckm1981:
The advice is ALWAyS take at least 1 min over.Which isn’t in fact advice, it’s ■■■■■■■■.
When the display shows 15, 30, or 45 minutes then that’s what has been recorded as break and you can if you wish drive at that point. It won’t suddenly revert to 14, 29 or 44.
You cannot get an infringement for recording the minimum required break.
I’m perfectly aware of how a tacho works thank you.
ckm1981:
The advice is ALWAyS take at least 1 min over.
Coffeeholic:
Which isn’t in fact advice, it’s ■■■■■■■■.
ckm1981:
I’m perfectly aware of how a tacho works thank you.
So why say the above 
Explain your reason please.
When I passed my test we had paper tachos and I used a watch to time my breaks,so I was advised to allow an extra minute as although my watch may have showed 15 mins the actual tacho may have recorded for example 14m 59secs hence the reason to allow an extra minute so my break didn’t become void because of a few seconds.
Today I went over 7 minutes on my break,on no ones advice but purely because I hadn’t finished my cereal yet,I know I’m absolutely crazy!!!
I would agree 100% with analogue (paper) but with digital it’s not necessary 
ckm1981:
Coffeeholic:
ckm1981:
The advice is ALWAyS take at least 1 min over.Which isn’t in fact advice, it’s ■■■■■■■■.
When the display shows 15, 30, or 45 minutes then that’s what has been recorded as break and you can if you wish drive at that point. It won’t suddenly revert to 14, 29 or 44.
You cannot get an infringement for recording the minimum required break.
I’m perfectly aware of how a tacho works thank you.
And yet you come out with ■■■■■■■■ that implies the opposite. 
Coffeeholic:
When the display shows 15, 30, or 45 minutes then that’s what has been recorded as break and you can if you wish drive at that point. It won’t suddenly revert to 14, 29 or 44.
Only if the correct part of the display is showing 15, 30 or 45 mins.
I’ve driven some lorries with older Stoneridge digi tachos that count x minutes on the left side, but showing completed x-1 “calendar” minutes on the right. Pay attention to the wrong side of the display and at the stroke of 15 on the left side, you’ve only had 14 calendar minutes in the bag. I can only guess that the left side is counting from when the tacho goes to brake, but the right side is counting calendar minutes.
(And before you say defect it, I spent 7 months or so defecting one vehicle on the fleet that some muppet at the calibration place had set the UTC time to DST, so was an hour out.)