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Aug 14, 2012

TACHOGRAPHS REGULATION * Europe

* Switzerland - New technology does not prevent fraud

(Photo from Siemens/Strada: Digital tachographs - new technology does not prevent fraud)
Geneve,Swiss -Jornal Strada -August 2012: -- The European Union intends to review the use of digital tachographs and adopt improvements in safety and efficacy in terms of profitability, which favors a reduction of operational and administrative charges for road transport... The IRU is intended to ensure greater security, at a reasonable cost to prevent fraud in tachographs as well as better enforcement of sanctions , harder for violators of tachographs, stressing that combating fraud tachograph is essential to the sustainability of road transport services...
The IRU is strongly opposed to the compulsory installation of all devices with positioning satellite once they cease to make tamper-proof digital tachograph...  " A more complex and expensive technology will not stop the offenders, but there will be increasingly tougher sanctions",  argued the Chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs of the IRU, Georges Causse...


* USA - BLACK BOX RULES

* DC - New black box rules for vehicles still set for Sept. 1

Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News, by David Shepardson -August 13, 2012: -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it will not delay new rules setting standards for automotive "black boxes" set to take effect on Sept. 1... In a notice posted Monday, NHTSA rejected a petition by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers — the trade group representing Detroit's Big Three automakers, Toyota Motor Corp., Volkswagen AG and seven others — to delay the new requirements for event data recorders until September 2013... The "black boxes," officially called event data recorders or EDRs, collect data about the seconds leading up to a crash and can help investigators determine the cause... The new rules were finalized in August 2006, though implementing it has already been delayed by two years, the safety agency noted... The auto trade group said in order to comply, some automakers with older-generation EDRs may simply disable them in order to comply with new regulations that set standards but don't mandate the devices...

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Dec 14, 2010

Digital Tachos * Europe - New international law for

From 1 January 2011, any vehicle from a non-EU AETR contracting country entering an EU country, will have to be fitted with a digital tachograph

Brussels,Belgium -Road Transport (UK), by Karen Crispe -13 December 2010: ... Tachodisc confirms that this will mean the driver and vehicle will come under EU and AETR legislation concerning the use of a digital drivers' card and a digital tachograph in the vehicle. It will also require the digital tachograph to be calibrated and a drivers' card to be used... Thus, if a driver/vehicle from an AETR country crosses an EU border and is stopped and found to be infringing on the legislation by the local enforcement bodies, local penalties will be applied... This directive follows a delay/reprieve that was due to come into force on 16 June 2010... The European Agreement Concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR) sets drivers' hours rules for international trade. The agreement covers more than 40 European states and includes other countries such as Russia, Turkey, Croatia and the Ukraine... (Picture from prideofthefleet.org.uk: Digitaltacho)

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May 14, 2010

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...

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Nov 13, 2009

Tachograph * Ireland - Offences avoid penalty points

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -November 12, 2009: -- Tachograph offences haven’t been included in the Road Traffic Bill 2009, which was published last month, despite the efforts of the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to have them included... The RSA had lobbied for the inclusion of a number of haulage-related road traffic offences to be included in the new Bill. However, the Department of Transport made the decision to maintain the Status Quo... The RSA campaigned that using penalty points, rather than mandatory court prosecution, offers a number of advantages including the opportunity for graduated penalties depending on the severity of the offence... The European Commission has already categorised certain offences for tachographs and drivers’ hours rules as “minor, serious and very serious”... A second benefit is it would address the absence of a system to prosecute non-Irish licensed operators, a scenario which the RSA says discriminates against Irish operators... Under EU law there is an obligation on the State to enforce tachograph and drivers’ hours legislation without discriminating on the nationality of the driver or those with out-of-State licences... (Photo from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog: Driver hours)

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Jul 29, 2009

Electronic Tachograph * Azerbaijan - EU demand to become compulsory since 2010

Baku,Azerbaijan -Fineko/abc.az -24 July 2009: -- The Association of International Motor Freight Forwarders of Azerbaijan (ABADA) has informed that the European Union’s toughened requirements on exhaust gas norms have told on international motor carriages by its members... ABADA chairman, Tofig Nurullayev, says that only separate truck hauliers of Azerbaijan carried cargo with destination in the EU countries... “They, as a rule, have quite new trucks and toughened exhaust requirements did not close a road to Europe for them. At the same time the EU is going to introduce compulsory demand on equipping of trucks with electronic tachogpaphs, and this can have impact on access of trucks from Azerbaijan to highways of Europe,” Nurullayev said... Major part of the national hauliers transport cargo to Russia...

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Dec 13, 2007

TECHNONEWS * Europe - Vosa completes digitach/analogue tacho analysis

London,UK -Motor Transport -12 December 2007: -- VOSA has completed the analysis of the trials to record any potential difference between digital and analogue tachographs conducted by two RHA members in June... It says it will be ready to give detailed feedback in the New Year, but project leader Barry Ricks adds: "We don't think we've discovered anything that we don¹t already know"...

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Aug 13, 2007

* USA - Vosa analyses data from tacho trial

Data collected by two hauliers which ran digital and analogue tachographs simultaneously for a month is being analysed by VOSA to see whether the two devices record time differently

London,UK -Road Transport/Commercial Motor, by Roanna Avison -10 August 2007: -- ... In May, VOSA and the Road Haulage Association (RHA) launched a trial with AJA Smith Transport of Clitheroe, Lancs, and Ray Stewart Haulage of Warrington, Cheshire, to investigate claims that digitachs over-record hours by rounding up to the nearest minute... While unable to give any indication as to the data that had been collected, Jack Semple, director of policy at the RHA, says it is "interesting and useful" and the results will be made available as soon as possible...

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