Writng out blank tachos when in france?

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hi all,i am new here so hello…
i need some advice,i am in the removals industry and we travel to france every week,are so called transport manager reckons we have to have 28 days tachos with us which i agree with but the thing is he says we we have to write on a tacho on the days that we dont drive saying other work?including saturday and sunday.
now this could mean i wright on a weeks worth of tachos other work because i havent driven on those days?
is there any truth in this?or do i just take the last 28 tachos with me that i have driven?

any help would be much appreciated,as i cant find anything on the internet to back this up!
thanks paul

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Your TM is a little confused. You don’t need 28 days tachos, you need tachos covering the current day and the previous 28 calendar days. That is not 28 charts but whatever number of charts covers that 28 day period so you don’t need to write out charts for your rest days, especially not charts saying other work as that would leave you without a weekly rest period.

For extra days off, over and above your weekly rest, the French like to see a Letter of Attestation and the fines can be hefty for not having one.

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Coffeeholic:
Your TM is a little confused. You don’t need 28 days tachos, you need tachos covering the current day and the previous 28 calendar days. That is not 28 charts but whatever number of charts covers that 28 day period so you don’t need to write out charts for your rest days, especially not charts saying other work as that would leave you without a weekly rest period.

For extra days off, over and above your weekly rest, the French like to see a Letter of Attestation and the fines can be hefty for not having one.

or for having too many :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wheel Nut:

Coffeeholic:
Your TM is a little confused. You don’t need 28 days tachos, you need tachos covering the current day and the previous 28 calendar days. That is not 28 charts but whatever number of charts covers that 28 day period so you don’t need to write out charts for your rest days, especially not charts saying other work as that would leave you without a weekly rest period.

For extra days off, over and above your weekly rest, the French like to see a Letter of Attestation and the fines can be hefty for not having one.

or for having too many :stuck_out_tongue:

Indeed. :wink:

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I was under the impression that the French gendarme’s liked even your reduced weekly rest of 24hrs to be recorded by tacho if taken in france?

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tommy t:
I was under the impression that the French gendarme’s liked even your reduced weekly rest of 24hrs to be recorded by tacho if taken in france?

They might like it, but they cannot take money from you for not doing it.

They like mayo on chips in Belgium but it isn’t compulsory

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thanks for all your help,so basicly he has got it wrong and all you need is all your tachos that you have actually driven in the last 28 days?

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maiders:
thanks for all your help,so basicly he has got it wrong and all you need is all your tachos that you have actually driven in the last 28 days?

Unless you have a day when you work, loading or unloading for example, but don’t drive, you will need a chart to record that work.

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yeh,sorry that was what i was getting at.so you do need to fill out tachos for the days in the uk that we are unloading/loading but not driving?

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maiders:
yeh,sorry that was what i was getting at.so you do need to fill out tachos for the days in the uk that we are unloading/loading but not driving?

Yes.