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TWO SPECIAL OFFERS are available on tachograph chart analysis.
One is the Foster
Randomcheck service. This offers a basic analysis of drivers' weekly hours, haulage or psv, and a contravention warning sheet at 46p per chart including VAT and postage. The minimum order is 60 charts. Check your own analysis; or use it for sickness/holiday cover.
The other CM Special Offer is the Foster Operational Systems and Tachograph Analysis Service (FOSTAS) — suitable for driver/vehicle combinations from one to 101 or more.
Compare the cost of your time and the quality of your system to the benefits of the FOSTAS system by accepting this Special Trial Period offer. The choices are offers for three, six or 12 months.
You can virtually clear yourself of hours problems at modest costs.
Operators may well multiply the cost/benefit return they gain from better vehicle utilisation. As you get used to reading the analysis returns, via a full, clear print-out so will the opportunities for use open up.
The system details which driver drove which vehicle on each working day; his starting time and starting point; finish time and finish point; duty time (comprising total, driven, other work and breaks); longest driving time; distance covered; average speed, maximum speed; and, where appropriate number of drops/lifts for small additional premium. Reports will indicate unrecorded time, if any; any incorrect use of mode; if the tachograph has been opened; and other points under such headings as: working depot; manual recording; lost card; and break illegal.
The print-out ends with Report on contraventions of driving hours and tachograph regulations; REF EEC Hours' Regulations 543/69 and tachograph Regulations 1463(70, 1787/73 and 2828/77. Addressed to each driver individually, this ensures that joint legal obligations are fulfilled. It is then dated and signed by both the operator and the driver.
Bureau use avoids tying up capital in equipment; and employing and training employees (including cover for holidays and sickness).
While charts, unlike log sheets, are not signed by operators, unless they are checked and any discrepancy is brought to the driver's notice, any offence is then condoned by the employer.