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Catch driving and rest time risks early

A quick way to see when driving or rest time is heading toward EU regulation 561/2006 limits.

Keeping track of driving and rest time across a fleet is hard to do from memory, and the tachograph check in Frachta gives you an early warning when something in the numbers does not add up. It compares recorded driving time against the limits set out in EU regulation 561/2006, so you can see potential problems before they turn into a compliance headache.

To use it, open /fleet/tachograph from your fleet section. There you can review each driver's recorded driving time against the daily limit of 9 hours, which can be extended to 10 hours twice a week, alongside the weekly limit of 56 hours and the 90-hour limit across any two consecutive weeks. Anything that looks like it breaches one of these limits is flagged for you to look at.

The check only flags what looks wrong, it does not file or submit anything on your behalf. That means once you see a flag, it is still up to you to look into the specific case, talk to the driver if needed, and decide what action to take.

Because the flags are visible as soon as the data is in, you can catch a pattern of long driving days or a week that is creeping toward the 56-hour ceiling while there is still time to adjust a schedule, rather than finding out only when a roadside check or an audit brings it up. Reviewing /fleet/tachograph regularly turns a rule that is easy to lose track of into something you can actually watch.

Source: Frachta

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