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The powers and sanctions available to enforce breaches of drivers' hours and tachograph rules.

• Updated: 22 April 2025

Who needs to use a tachograph and exemptions; digital and analogue tachographs; guidance for goods vehicles, passenger carrying vehicles (PCVs) and light vehicles

• Overview

  Tachographs record information about driving time, speed and distance.…

• Tachographs in light vehicles

  You need to use a tachograph if you are driving a smaller vehicle (such as…

The powers and sanctions available to enforce breaches of drivers' hours and tachograph rules.

• Updated: 22 April 2025

Find out about the penalties that can be applied if you do not follow the UK tobacco track and trace rules.

• Updated: 18 July 2023

Being stopped by the police or DVSA - fixed penalties, roadside prohibitions, driving without an operator's licence, immobilisation and impounding.

What happens if you're stopped by the police while driving - breath tests, motoring offences, faults with your vehicle, seizing your vehicle

When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.

Declare whether or not you and your company have any convictions when you apply to set up an Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC).

OTSI’s enforcement powers as set out in The Trade, Aircraft and Shipping Sanctions (Civil Enforcement) Regulations 2024.

• Updated: 31 July 2025

How to set up an Approved Tachograph Centre (ATC), how much it costs and who you can employ