Driver Hours Tacho Rules . Can you account for your 21 day history?

It is a drivers’ personal responsibility to hold tachos in the cab for the last 15 days and the current week hence up to 21 days. VOSA show very little patience for failure to produce and will issue a prohibition which could lead to criminal prosecution.

Failure to supply sufficient records at the roadside is likely to be a Band C penalty of £120 under the intended graduated penalty scheme to be introduced later this year/ early next year. In the meantime it is sensible to use these guideline fixed penalties in court to persuade magistrates not to impose higher penalties.

Tim Ridyard

Failure to supply sufficient records at the roadside is likely to be a Band C penalty of £120 under the intended graduated penalty scheme to be introduced later this year/ early next year. In the meantime it is sensible to use these guideline fixed penalties in court to persuade magistrates not to impose higher penalties.

Tim Ridyard

On 2nd July 2007 the regulations to facilitate the new Community Drivers' Hours Regulation EC 561/2006 came into effect after some delay.

These regulations
- list the various vehicle exemptions to the EU drivers' hours regs,and
- define the UK defence available to transport undertakings who otherwise will be automatically liable for the offences committed by their drivers ( and hence liable to prosecution themselves).

The regulation is 2007/1819. The full title is: Community Drivers' Hours and Recording Equipment Regulations 2007

Tim Ridyard is a partner, road transport lawyer & Higher Courts advocate, at Ipswich-based Barker Gotelee Solicitors. www.barkergotelee.co.uk