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EOBR * UK - Freight Truck Drivers Accused Of Cheating Tachograph Regulations
Stronger Penalties Required to Prevent Abuse
London,UK -Handy Shipping Guide (UK) –13 May 2010: -- Two simple facts of life. Firstly most people are resistant to change and secondly, bring in new protection or surveillance technology and someone will find a way to beat it. Both points are relevant to the Road Haulage Association’s (RHA) statement today regarding the abuse of current Hours of Service regulations by commercial vehicle drivers delivering and collecting freight shipments throughout the country... Now it seems that the latest generation of digital tachographs, designed to record irrefutably a driver’s speed and hours of service, are being circumvented by unscrupulous operators jamming the sensitive recording media with magnets making their recent driving history illegible... The principal culprits are, unsurprisingly to most UK based drivers, foreign vehicles who are well versed in the black arts of illegal running. According to the RHA’s CEO, Geoff Dunning, the Central Motorway Police Group has revealed that 30% of non-UK registered trucks subjected to targeted checks in the first quarter of this year were found to be using a magnet... Labels: black recorders, EOBR rules, tachographs
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