Tachograph card reader - Read, download, track and analyse your driver card digital tachograph data right on your phone with Tachogram

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When you are thinking about switching tachographs, you need to consider several factors. The SE5000 Exakt Duo2 can give you up to 45 mins per day extra driving time and a lower infringement rate*; and it is used by companies such as Coca-Cola and Asda, along with many others. When thinking about what accessories you also need, the only product other than your driver card is digital tachograph printer rolls. Digital tachographs use special thermal paper rolls. These printouts show the driver’s activity, including breaks and rest time. The information is broken down into a combination of text and symbols that you can find out about in our infographic showing what the symbols mean. Tacho and analysis software support Subject to EU & AETR rules, the law now requires any vehicle weighing over 3.5 tonnes to be fitted with an analogue or digital tachograph. All commercial vehicles registered on or after 1st May 2006 must be fitted with a digital tachograph before they can be driven.

There are four types of cards required to run on a digital tachograph, however, the two most used are the driver card and company card. These will be the only two cards a driver or fleet manager needs to get driving legally. It’s sometimes hard to work out when to drop driving or take too little time for your legally required breaks, which is where the Duo technology is very useful. This tacho has a support tool that displays real-time updates, which helps reduce infringements by up to 60%*. This keeps you legal while optimising time on the road, driving and working. The Stoneridge SE5000 Exakt Duo2 includes working time directive calculations, which ensure that you know exactly how long you’ve been driving for. This means there are fewer errors in timekeeping and fewer infringements. The Tacho2Safe comes with preloaded TachoSafeLite software for your PC. This software is an easy to use and convenient program offering a range of reports in an attractive graphical interface. (please note, this is not compatible with Mac computers)With all these added benefits, it’s clear that switching to the right digital tachograph is essential to give you or your fleet the best tools to work with, as well as keeping you legal. Driver and company cards Based on smart cards, motion sensors and digital units, the new system replaces the conventional paper discs and mechanical tachograph units that have been used to monitor drivers of commercial vehicles to date.

By implementing unique screens in the latest SE5000 to provide extra information to drivers, infringements in a sample of real data taken from 108 drivers, examined over 180 days using any digital tachograph manufactured prior to April 2012 for 90 days, followed by an SE5000 Rev 7.4 or 7.5 for 90 days, showed a 60% reduction in actual infringements. Digital Tachographs for Commercial Vehicles Mobile apps are free to help make both support and management of tachographs easier for both drivers and fleet managers. Duo Mobile syncs with your SE5000 Exakt Duo2, giving you a second overview, as well as real-time updates, which are displayed on your phone’s screen. You can find out how to use your mobile app via our YouTube channel here. Tachograph analysis software – OPTAC3 Driver Card– This is a personal card, used by each driver only, to record their driving activities, rest and break times. Digital data and vehicle unit (VU) data can be stored on these cards. These cards cannot be shared or transferred. By law as of 1st May 2006, digital tachographs should be fitted to all commercial road haulage vehicles registered on or after that date. The SE5000 Exakt Duo2 tachograph in combination with the OPTAC3 tachograph analysis helps to ensure that you drive within your legal limits, and have the best software to help you analyse the data that the tachograph provides. This combination helps fleet managers to not only plan more effectively but to run their fleets more efficiently.

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