The Driving Book: Everything New Drivers Need to Know But Don't Know to Ask

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Once you’re ready, you can use you can use The Learner Driver’s Manual to learn with a friend or relative; or to reinforce and revise the lessons you receive from your driving instructor. Whichever way you use it, it will help you to become much more than a learner driver. Also Available In: Manual entries may also be needed at other times – for example, if the tachograph develops a fault, or in the event of an emergency see ‘Unforeseen events’. Employers may also ask drivers to indicate on a chart where their duty (or rest) begins and ends, so that they can ensure that a full record has been submitted. A digital or smart tachograph offers the ability for a driver to enter activities carried out by them away from their vehicle. This is by means of the manual input facility in the tachograph. There is however no requirement to make a manual record on a driver card where all the activity has already been captured on an analogue record sheet. The regulations do not permit any other forms of record. However, DVSA will also accept attestation forms that cover the relevant periods, including rest, other work and periods of availability. One attestation form should cover each activity. For example, in a period where there was no in-scope driving, a driver would need one attestation to cover other work, and another for weekly rest.

Any work-related activity can impact on a driver’s fatigue levels. The EU regulation defines any work activity as being ‘other work’. This includes work that falls outside of the scope of EU drivers’ hours rules. For example, a part time driver who has a second job working in a bar, must count the bar work as ‘other work’ regardless of when that work takes place. I do not mind if it is in a hotel or a supermarket; indeed, if the libraries in (Mrs Osborne’s) constituency stay open, I do not mind if it is based in one of their car parks or in a civic centre.” Guidance on temporary relaxation of the enforcement of EU drivers’ hours rules added to the collection.

A driver who has not been issued a driver card is not permitted to drive a vehicle equipped with a digital or smart tachograph.

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ensure that all duties conducted since the driver card was last removed from a tachograph are manually entered onto the card record, using the manual entry facility on the tachograph

You can use books and software to revise for the theory test and take practice tests. Multiple-choice questions On any day when driving that is in scope of the EU regulations takes place, drivers must use a tachograph to record periods of availability by either: The amount of detail drivers must record depends on whether the driver carries out driving under EU regulations in a fixed week. A fixed week is from 00:00 hours on Monday to 24:00 hours the next Sunday.For example, if drivers carried out other work for two hours between 06.00 and 08.00 in June before taking over the vehicle, they must enter this as between 05.00 and 07.00 in UTC time. As mentioned above, it is possible for drivers to set the display time on the VU to local BST, but this will not prevent the VU recording in UTC. Therefore, it is recommended that drivers leave the display time in UTC as a reminder of the difference. Manual records

It is possible that a driver may, during the course of a day, drive two or more vehicles where both types of tachograph are used. Drivers in such a situation must use a driver card to record while driving a vehicle with a digital or smart tachograph and tachograph charts when driving a vehicle equipped with an analogue tachograph. Time away from the vehicle may be recorded on either type of tachograph, but there is no need to record it on both. If you have a trailer, you may need to register it to take it abroad. If your new log book does not arrive retrospectively use the manual input facility on a digital tachograph when the card is next inserted Added 'Temporary relaxation of the EU drivers’ hours rules: transport of pigs from Scotland to abattoirs in England'.Analogue tachographs do not have a manual input facility so a manual record must be made on the reverse of the record sheet detailing the type of activity and the times started and finished. Further details are given in the section relating to analogue tachographs under the heading of ‘manual records’. when using the derogation to interrupt rest on journeys involving a ferry or train, the ferry mode must be selected in addition to the rest mode (EU rules only) Analogue tachograph recordings are made by a stylus cutting traces into a wax-coated chart. Three separate styluses mark recordings of: enter centrefield details at the first use of the chart, when changing vehicles and when completing the use of the chart (see ‘Centrefield entries’ section)