Tachograph software
- Driving left before a break is due
- 0.5
- Driving left today
- 5
- Driving left this week
- 18
Every figure on this site comes from the numbers you enter and the method printed beside them: your hours, your limits, your break length, your download interval. Where a guide names a published document it names the document and the date it was read. This site publishes no regulation text, no legal advice and no analysis bureau's price.
Tachograph software is bought for one of three jobs, and an office that has not decided which will be sold all three at the price of the widest. The first is getting the data off the cards and units. The second is analysing it and finding infringements. The third is holding the evidence: the download dates, the analysis, and the infringement the driver signed. Products cover different combinations of those and use the same words for all of them. This guide is about deciding which you are buying before you look at a demo.
Open the Tachograph analysis Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Separate the download from the analysis
Getting data off a card is a mechanical job that a reader and a small utility do. Analysing it against limits is a different job with a different output. Offices that buy them as one thing often end up with an analysis product whose download half they do not use, or a downloader whose findings they still take to a bureau.
Decide where the evidence lives
The record that matters in an investigation is the download date, the finding and the driver's signature, and it has to be somewhere you can produce it from years later. A bureau's portal is somebody else's system with your evidence in it, which is fine until you leave. Ask what an export contains and how you get it.
Check the infringement loop, not the detection
Every product finds infringements; the arithmetic is not hard. What separates them is the loop afterwards: raised, put to the driver, explained, signed, filed, and countable when somebody asks how many were closed. That loop is the compliance regime, and software that stops at a report leaves you doing it by hand.
What a transport manager asks before running the Tachograph software
What should tachograph software do?
Get the data off the cards and units, analyse it against the limits you work to, and hold the download dates, the findings and the signed infringements as evidence. Which of the three you need decides what you should be paying.
Do we still need an analysis bureau?
Not necessarily, and plenty of operators run both while they change over. A bureau suits an office with no time; software suits one that wants the record in its own hands as the downloads happen.
How often do cards have to be downloaded?
There are deadlines and this site does not state them: GOV.UK's drivers' hours guidance is where they are set out, and your own regime should be built against it. What the software should do is show you which downloads are due before they are late.
What does Tachovo cost?
The drivers' hours check is free with no account. Tachovo Pro is £49 a month for the whole fleet, not per driver and not per report.
Ask us about Tachograph software
Tell us how many vehicles and drivers you run, how the cards are downloaded today, and what happens when an infringement is found.