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Rules on drivers’ hours and tachographs for vehicles used for the carriage of goods in Great Britain and abroad.
Rules on drivers’ hours and tachographs for passenger vehicles in Great Britain and abroad.
A summary of working time regulations for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) and public service vehicle (PSV) drivers and crew ('mobile workers').
1. Who these rules apply to These rules apply to mobile workers - drivers…
Simplified rules for drivers of large goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles, including how long you can drive and work, and the breaks you should take.
A manual about becoming and operating an Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC) and a list of equipment that can be used.
What you need to know about the digital tachograph driver card.
How you should fit digital tachograph units in cars and vans if the manufacturer didn't supply instructions.
Information about digital tachograph company cards.
Includes updates on tachograph exemptions for zero emission vehicles and when vehicles need to use a smart tachograph 2.
Includes updates on smart tachographs 2, tachograph software and equipment calibration.
Includes updates on 2025 payments, tachograph retrofit rules, 2025 workshop cards and speed limiter calibrations.
Includes updates on the end of the transitional smart 2 tachograph period and annual fee renewal for approved tachograph centres.
Includes updates on tachograph seals and annual test failures and a review of the Tachograph Scheme disciplinary process.
How bus, coach and HGV drivers should record the hours they spend on 'other work'.
Update on replacement rules for smart tachographs, approved 1C seals and quality control checks.
Special notice for approved tachograph centres issued August 2015.
A manual for potential tachograph repairers containing the rules you must comply with to become approved repairers.
An update on the relaxation of rules for 1C tachographs, clarification on retrofitting 1C tachographs, security of seals, seal distributors and 1C training.
Update on the use of unauthorised calibration plaques and 1C seals, calibration certificate signatures, and the restart of enforcement visits of centres.
Update on Kissling seals, quality control checks conducted by training staff, distance learning re-certification courses and more.
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