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TipOct 14, 2026

Catch tachograph risks before they become fines

Frachta's tachograph check flags driving and rest time that looks off against EU rules, before an inspector does.

The tachograph check in /fleet/tachograph reviews your drivers' recorded driving and rest patterns against EU regulation 561/2006, covering the 9-hour daily driving limit (extendable to 10 hours twice a week), the 56-hour weekly cap, and the 90-hour limit across any two consecutive weeks, so you don't have to work through the arithmetic by hand for every driver on your roster.

Open /fleet/tachograph and you'll see your fleet's drivers listed with their recent hours. Anything that looks like it's pushing against one of those limits is flagged, so you can scan the whole list in one go instead of checking each driver's record individually.

Click into a flagged driver to see which limit the pattern is bumping up against, whether that's a single day running long, a week creeping past 56 hours, or the rolling two-week total edging toward 90.

From there the decision is yours: talk to the driver, adjust the coming week's schedule, or correct whatever record needs fixing. The check is advisory only — it flags what looks wrong, it doesn't file anything or correct it for you, so any follow-up action stays in your hands.

Used as a regular habit rather than a one-off glance, it means a pattern of long driving days or a tight fortnight gets caught by you, in good time, rather than being discovered for the first time during a roadside check or an audit, when there's little room left to fix anything.

Source: Frachta

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