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Tacho-serv's green light
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A BE tilNESSMAN is about to celebrate victory at the end of a nine-year campaign to win the right to fit remanufactured tachographs to trucks.
.Derek McCarthy was originally told that a fundamental change in British law would be needed before his Birmingham-based Tacho-serv business could legally equip trucks with the thousands of tachos it rebuilds and recalibrates each year.
This is because the law says that anyone fitting a tachograph to a truck must be sponsored by one of the manufacturers -Of course they would never sponsor us because we were repairing their units then selling them on," McCarthy points out.
But after years of determined lobbying of MPs and MEPs, the Office of Fair Trading has finally ruled in his favour.
"It's been a lot of sleepless nights," says McCarthy. "but I knew that if we struggled long enough we would get there."
McCarthy admits that without the right to fit tachos he would eventually have gone out of business. Digitachs replace analogue tachographs from this May.