BRITAIN'S first vehicles to be quipped with officially calibrated tachographs
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will be rolling out of the calibration stations by the end of the month.
Already bookings are being taken for calibration stations to be officially approved by the Department of Transport and a spokesman told CM that the first vehicles will be rolling out of the stations possibly next week.
But discussions are still taking place between the manufacturers and the DTp over the siting and numbers of stations to be set up. In the meantime application forms have been printed for the operators of calibration stations.
Department officials have laid down strict rules on the equipment and manpower that should be available. DTp spokesmen say that there should be a fitter and an assistant as well as a rolling road to make sure that the instrument is correctly fitted.
Calibration will cost operators £10.60 and that price has been fixed until January 1979. The job will take an hour and a quarter.
Experts say that calibration must be done every time the vehicle is taken off the road — otherwise false readings may be given.
Applications for calibration stations must be made by the operator of the station on form GV207 and the forms must then be sent to the manufacturer of the tacho who then completes the form.
But the tacho makers have told the DTp that the first batch of 150 calibration stations as envisaged by the DTp is too small.
They want to see all their agents appointed as official calibration station operators.