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by Colin ird ('Any Questions' CM 7December) in respect of nual entries on tachograph irts to record overnight rest misleading, fails to take :mint of the practicalities inlved and contradicts the vice given by the Departmt of Transport. There is no abt that entries on the front the chart showing starting finishing times are perfectacceptable so long as they not obliterate any of the ier recordings.
Why is this so? First, it is portant to recognise that a ver is required to produce a -hour record and not t one which covers his wking/driving activity. This ans that the chart must ow when he has taken his ily rest. Of course, in some cumstances a driver is able to leave the chart in the tachograph overnight having set the control to the rest mode and then to replace it with a new chart on starting work the following day. But there are many instances when this cannot happen: the vehicle might be double-shifted or indeed the driver might be involved with a different vehicle on successive days, and in these cases there is no alternative to the chart being removed, and a manual entry making clear when rest started and finished is the only practical solution.
Such manual entries can be made on the reverse side and indeed the chart might provide a grid for this. But this is not compulsory, and a clear entry on the front indicating starting and finishing times is in many cases the most sensible way.
The DTp's 'A Guide to Goods Vehicle Drivers' Hours Tachographs and Records' (GV262) says: