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Tampering with truck electronics is 'risky'
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VOSA HAS WARNED that using a magnet to falsify digital tachograph records could result not just in fines, prison sentences and 0-licence revocation, but also in a truck losing its ABS signal.
In an exclusive opinion column for CM (see next week's issue to read it in full), Kevin Rooney, customer director of Vosa, says that interfering with truck electronics is a "risky business" that has the potential for a truck to lose its ABS signal or apply the parking brake itself, and for the engine management system to run an emergency programme that only releases half of its potential power.
Meanwhile,Vosa is also set to chair an ELI-wide meeting of its Continental counterparts to ensure enforcement authorities are "on top of the game" when it comes to the use of magnets to falsify digital tachograph records The issue hit the headlines last year when a union member in Holland faced the sack for refusing to use a magnet to exceed working hours (`Dutch drivers use magnets to commit digitach fraud', CM 6 November 2008).