France has equipped its HGV inspectors with devices that can remotely read tachographs while the lorries are on the road.

France’s HGV inspectors go remote with smart tachograph checks

An HGV was removed from the road network in Staffordshire because the driver had severely breached drivers' hours regulations, reported the DVSA today.

DVSA seize HGV and fine trucker £1,500 over severe drivers’ hours offences

A driver was fined nearly 1,500 euros in Luxembourg because the tachograph in his HGV hadn't been configured well enough. As a result, the device registered availability incorrectly several times, Dutch haulier association TLN reported. Such fines have been reportedly issued in France as well.

TLN warns of almost €1,500 euros fine for using wrong tachograph setting

Theoretically, one more hour of sleep - this is what we gain thanks to the annual change of time. However, how much are we losing due to the current regulations? For the average driver, the problems are mainly related to the chaos in the timetables. However, for transport, which relies on tachographs, the autumn and spring setting of clocks generates much more responsibility.

The clocks are changing again; here’s what to do with your tachograph

The Norwegian government has changed its road transport rules in order to implement EU regulations. It is now known that the new rules will apply as of November 1st.

Norway to adopt EU Mobility Package rules from 1 November

<a href="https://lastebil.no/Aktuelt/Nyhetsarkiv/2022/Glemmer-du-dette-kan-det-raskt-koste-deg-15.000-kroner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Norwegian Truck Owners Association</a> has warned hauliers that the organisation has noted an increasing trend of tachograph control regarding post-registration activity.

Post-registration tachograph checks ramped up in Norway

Digital tachograph analytics company Aquarius IT is warning UK transport operators about a technical glitch when remote downloading from some GEN2 tachographs.

Tachograph analytics firm warns of serious remote download glitch

Hauliers that don't follow drivers’ hours regulations often have lower turnover than their competitors, the Swedish Transport Agency has recently found. Sometimes, these businesses are letterbox companies that can easily be shut down and restarted. The government department fears the formation of some of these firms could be motivated by the fact that fines for multiple transport violations in Sweden are connected to turnover.

Swedish Transport Agency suspects hauliers are using subsidiaries to pay lower fines

Despite a haulier downloading all the data from its tachographs, it was fined over €2,000 by the Dutch transport inspectorate for not providing enough data when requested. As it turned out, an error occurred somewhere in the process of the data being transferred from the company computer to the inspector's device, resulting in incomplete data being available to the supervisor.

Dutch haulier pays substantial tachograph fine due to software issue

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A haulier was fined 15,000 euros in Italy after police officers found out that the two drivers driving the refrigerated truck had not used their tachograph cards.</span>