All new goods and passenger and vehicles classed as in scopes are now required to have a digital tachograph fitted. To meet the requirements of the legislation in respect of adequate drivers hours training, we offer a 1 day driver digital tachograph training course.

Unlike most training companies who squeeze the course into a half day lesson amd only cover the use of these machine, we offer a full day so that each candidate fully understands the use and requirements for keeping records. This also allows time for each candidate to ask any questions they may have so everyone who leaves the course shoudl be compitant in the use of a digital tachograph unit.

Digital tachograph training courses can be run either at your venue as long as there are adequate facilities meeting health and safety requirements or at our classroom facility on the county showground in Haverfordwest.

Training courses are legally speaking "other work" in relation to drivers hours.

Drivers in the short run, may well experience these digital tachos through the use of hired vehicles when their normal vehicles are unavailable.

The digital tachographs in circulation at present include Siemens digital tachograph (Digitach), Stoneridge digital tachograph and Actia digital tachograph.

Drivers need a digital tacho drivers card. Once a driver has a digital tachograph drivers card, then he will find he can legally drive:

• any "new" vehicle in the fleet fitted with a digital tachograph;
• any "hired in" vehicle with a digital tachograph;
• any "old" vehicle fitted with an analogue tachograph where the drivers card would be part of the recent drivers hours record.

The introduction of these systems and the associated smart-cards are complex with new rules and penalties. They are far more than simply digital replacements for the existing tachographs. The EU has viewed the change over as an opportunity to expand the way tachographs are used and tightened the legislation that governs them.