Study tachographs at-a-glance
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• Hauliers are looking a gifthorse in the mouth by not using tachograph information to their benefit. If hauliers studied their drivers' tachos carefully they could make up to 20% savings in fuel costs alone, as well as substantial savings on maintenance.
Fred Kay, general manager of Lucas Kienzle Instruments, startled delegates at the FMC with this information and urged: operators to use printed information, such as tachographs, in the same way it was used eight years ago when they first came on the scene.
"Lessons and disciplines learned in the early tacho days have fallen by the wayside. Ata-glance reading techniques have been largely forgotten," said Kay. "It is easy to see whether the driver started punctually, made the appropriate number of drops, arrived at the drops punctually and that the duration of the drops were within schedule."
Kay insists that operators should learn at-a-glance tachograph analysis techniques which would allow them to immediately detect aggressive or defensive driving.
lust a few minutes' attention each day to this one feature would produce large savings," he maintained.