CHART PRINTING
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QI was interested to read your headline story recently about the accuracy of tachographs when using badly printed charts. I am concerned about the quality of the charts that my employers give me to use. They are often crumpled and I have even been given one with coffee stains. My concern is that I may be stopped and asked to produce my charts.
I religiously keep to the drivers' hours laws, but I am worried the charts may produce misleading information. Have you any suggestions on what I can do? I have spoken to the boss, but his attitude is "You take what you're given." Is there any way I can use my own tachograph charts? RB, Preston AYour employer sounds as if he most probably keeps his accounts on the back of cigarette packets, which also probably end up coffee-stained!
If you keep to the drivers' hours regulations you have no worry about badly manufactured charts. The type of error is marginal and most law enforcement officers will be sympathetic.
There is nothing stopping you using charts you have purchased yourself, but that may change if legislation causes charts to be numbered.