need some advice please i know with the digital tacho if you pull up in a queue every time you move it clocks a min one minute. so that means it doesn’t register seconds so if you pulled up at say 1125 and 10 sec’s then pulled away 30 sec’s later what will that register.
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need some advice please i know with the digital tacho if you pull up in a queue every time you move it clocks a min one minute. so that means it doesn’t register seconds so if you pulled up at say 1125 and 10 sec’s then pulled away 30 sec’s later what will that register.
The old type of digital tachograph would have recorded a 30 second stop as driving, the new type would record whatever activity took up the larger part of the minute but what happens with a stop of exactly 30 seconds I’ve no idea.
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i didnt know if it went to the full min or 30 sec ive been told the newer ones record sec’s.
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thanks me dear
i didnt know if it went to the full min or 30 sec ive been told the newer ones record sec’s.
I drove a brand new one today didn’t notice any seconds then again I wasn’t looking for them.
on the readouts on older ones they just show hrs and mins but not had a new one yet just what i was told.
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thanks me dear
i didnt know if it went to the full min or 30 sec ive been told the newer ones record sec’s.
As I undestand it the way the new ones work is that they record the activity that takes up the largest proportion of the minute.
If you was driving for 35 seconds of a complete minute and on other work for the other 25 seconds the whole minute would be recorded as driving, if you was driving for 25 seconds of the minute and stationary for 35 seconds the whole of the minute would be recorded as other work.
They don’t actually record seconds but people do say they save a lot of driving time with the new type, personally I’ve never noticed any difference but then I haven’t been looking for any so that’s probably why 
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They don’t actually record seconds but people do say they save a lot of driving time with the new type, personally I’ve never noticed any difference but then I haven’t been looking for any so that’s probably why
They can save you time, for example got in my unit one day last week it wasn’t fueled so drove the 20 yds or so to the pump spent 5 mins filling up then drove the 50 yds or so to trailer hooked up and pulled off the bay to shut the rear doors and still nil driving time.
If you were on a break you could move the wagon a small distance put it back on break and when you do a print out it wouldn’t show any interuption.
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The old type of digital tachograph would have recorded a 30 second stop as driving, the new type would record whatever activity took up the larger part of the minute but what happens with a stop of exactly 30 seconds I’ve no idea.
If there is exactly 30seconds of driving followed by 30 seconds of work - it’d record the full minute as work. 30s of work followed by 30s of drive = 1m drive. It is whatever the last activity was within the calendar minute, or whatever the longest accumulated activity was within the calendar minute.
And no they don’t display or print seconds - everything still works to a full minute
That’s how I understand it anyway but I stand to be corrected.
Iirc the old ones would record a minutes driving if you drove for 5 seconds (and/so many pulses) or more in the same minute, you could do a very quick tiny shunt but that was it. I don’t know the tech specs of the latest generation.
Thanks for the replies
The new unit certainly saves time. I decided to call into ask the chap in the Tacho centre about it. He told me it depends how many seconds of driving activity and how many seconds standing as to what the device records but he assured me it’d save me considerable amounts of driving time if I changed to it.
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These new tacho’s can save a lot of driving time in stop start driving.
I regularly come in through the dock at Killingholme, off the Stena Line freighter from Hoek van Holland. There can be as many as 150 trucks coming off it, although it’s usually around 120 on a Thursday morning. We have to queue up around the export trailer compound, have a quick chat with the Customs in that little blue booth, then queue to get out of the gate. They might decide to send some of us through the scanner, or decide they want to do a load inspection.
Doing that means it can take an hour or more to travel the 2km from the boat to the front gate. With the old map tacho’s, that frequently took 45 minutes of drive time recorded. My new map tacho usually records 20 - 25 minutes driving, often less. 
I was stuck in traffic on my way into Central London recently. In 38 minutes of constant stop start driving, the new tacho only registered 11 minutes of driving, my truck (60 plate) would have deffo registered the full 38.
I wouldn’t have a clue how much a tacho costs new, but if I was my guvnor, I’d replace the lot on our fleet.
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I was stuck in traffic on my way into Central London recently. In 38 minutes of constant stop start driving, the new tacho only registered 11 minutes of driving, my truck (60 plate) would have deffo registered the full 38.I wouldn’t have a clue how much a tacho costs new, but if I was my guvnor, I’d replace the lot on our fleet.
Siemens were offerinf an upgrade for £400 - soon save that back in driving time
I’ll agree the new 1.4 version saves a [zb]load of driving time especially in stop/start traffic, just had mine replaced due to a download fault. However it still resets to a fresh 4.5 hour driving period when using POA 
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