Download, analyse, evidence

Tachograph rules, and the record that shows they were followed

Tachovo is for the office that has to produce the evidence: the transport manager named on the O-licence, the compliance clerk in a haulage or coach fleet, the owner-driver who is both.

Free for 14 days. No card needed.

Free to use
  • No account
  • No card
  • No sign-up

Tachovo Pro is £49 per month for the whole fleet, billed monthly.

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free tool on this site
The check is free because an office that knows where its drivers stand is the office that wants the record behind it. Nothing here is a trial with a clock on it.
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providers' own published prices, compared
in the Drivers Hours WTD Rules
£49
per month, whole team
Free: $0
  • The transport manager, compliance clerk or owner-driver answerable for drivers' hours in a GB fleet, who downloads cards, analyses them and has to produce the evidence afterwards
  • Not a driver looking up a symbol or making a manual entry, not somebody applying for a tacho card, and not a fleet shopping for telematics

What Tachovo keeps for a transport office between one download and the next

  1. Every card, with the date it was read

    The first question in any investigation is whether the cards were downloaded on time. That is a date against a card, and it is the cheapest piece of evidence to keep and the most expensive to be missing.

  2. Driving measured against the limits you work to

    Analysis is arithmetic, and the value is not the clever part: it is that the same arithmetic is applied to every driver every period, so an outlier is visible rather than remembered.

  3. Raised, sent, signed and kept

    An infringement nobody signed is a finding you cannot show you acted on. The record's job is the loop, not the detection: found, put to the driver, explained, signed, filed.

Tools

The check a transport office runs first

The free drivers' hours check works out, from the hours a driver has actually done, when the next break falls due, what driving is left today and this week, and how much of the week is gone.

Tachovo Pro keeps what follows: the card downloads with their dates, the analysed driving, the infringements raised and signed by the driver, and the pack behind them when somebody asks. The limits are figures you enter, because this site publishes no regulation and no legal advice.

Free to use. No account, no card, no sign-up.

In figures

Drivers Hours WTD Rules

4 to 90hour

Range of the published figures

6 sources with a published figure, read 18 October 2026.

  1. GOV.UK Drivers' hours: assimilated (previously EU) rules90 hour
  2. Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, consolidated text90 hour
  3. Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, consolidated text45 hour
  4. GOV.UK Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules24 hour
  5. GOV.UK Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules10 hour
  6. GOV.UK Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules4 hour
Highest first.
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GOV.UK Drivers' hours: assimilated (previously EU) rules90 hour
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, consolidated text90 hour
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, consolidated text45 hour
GOV.UK Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules24 hour
GOV.UK Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules10 hour
GOV.UK Drivers' hours: GB domestic rules4 hour

Should we use an analysis bureau instead?

A bureau reads your cards and sends back a report, which suits an operator with no office time and no appetite for the software. Tachovo suits the office that wants the record in its own hands, updated as the downloads happen rather than a fortnight later, and does not want to pay per report to see it.

Where the record lives

Tachovo: With you, exportable at any time

An analysis bureau: With the bureau, in their format

When you see it

Tachovo: As the download is recorded

An analysis bureau: When the report comes back

Who signs the infringement

Tachovo: The driver, against the record

An analysis bureau: Usually the office, from the report

What it costs

Tachovo: One price for the whole fleet

An analysis bureau: Commonly per driver or per report

The comparison is category level and names no bureau and no price. What a particular bureau charges is theirs to publish, and this site quotes no competitor's figure.

Tachovo Pro

£49

per month, whole team

The check is yours. Tachovo Pro keeps the record behind it.

Upgrading turns the check into the evidence. The download has a date and a deadline; the analysed driving sits against the driver and the vehicle; the infringement is raised, sent, signed and kept. Export is always available, so the compliance history is yours whether or not you stay.

  • Send the infringement record to the driver from the record it came from.
  • Connect your own Stripe account if you recharge compliance costs.
  • Connect the bookkeeping the office already files with.

Free for 14 days. No card needed.

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