I am talking about the digital tachograph company card. Why would a company need exactly 2,232 cards? Who came up with that number and why?
Why not 20 or 2000 or why not say, you can have as many cards as required at a cost of £38 each.
Along with this question, I worry about how I am going to put all my plastic in my wallet. Along with the American Express Gold card I now have to make room for a drivers licence, a digital tacho card, a driver CPC card, my organ donor card and my Gentlemans club card.
If all this information will fit on my Government ID card, hurry up, look sharp and introduce it.
I reckon that one day they will invent a card where it contains many strips on the rear, each one with a different purpose and a different pin to activate each one.
The strips could then be changed individually and tailored to the needs of each individual.
Be a real [ZB] if lost though
Wheel Nut:
Why would a company need exactly 2,232 cards?
to go with the average number of children per family
Wheel Nut:
I am talking about the digital tachograph company card. Why would a company need exactly 2,232 cards? Who came up with that number and why?
Why not 20 or 2000 or why not say, you can have as many cards as required at a cost of £38 each.
Along with this question, I worry about how I am going to put all my plastic in my wallet. Along with the American Express Gold card I now have to make room for a drivers licence, a digital tacho card, a driver CPC card, my organ donor card and my Gentlemans club card.
If all this information will fit on my Government ID card, hurry up, look sharp and introduce it.
Don’t forget your EHIC card You need a bigger wallet.
It’s not a strange number at all - Seems pretty ordinary to me.
I thought there might be something mathematically significant about the number 2232 but not so:
It has 24 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, 31, 36, 62, 72, 93, 124, 186, 248, 279, 372, 558, 744, 1116, 2232) which is above average but not great. 2160 has 40 for example, and It is not prime, square, cube or perfect.
I can only conclude that there is some limitation in the software.
The number isn’t strange if you know the answer, bit like half the questions in a pub quiz.
The first 13 characters of the card show that it is a company card and detail the company that it was issued to. Characters 14 and 15 give the ‘serial number’ of the individual card within the particular company. The Regulation allows each character to be selected from the sequence; 0…9, A…Z and a…z. If you do the maths on all those permutations you get to 2 232…simples!!
No I don’t know why a company would possibly want that many cards, especially at an initial cost of
£ 84 816, but you pays your money and makes your choice.
Important thing to remember is that the application address is what decides the first 13 characters. Best to apply for all cards from Head Office or one depot and issue the cards out internally, that way they will all have the same first 13 characters. If the first 13 are different, the VU will treat the cards as being from separate companys and you will not be able to download data, which can and does cause major problems.
You need a bigger wallet. 
