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(gr. tachos - speed + grapho - to write)
It is a measuring device combining speedometer and clock. Tachograph registers: the distance traveled, speed, and driver activity (time driving, resting). Some types also register engine`s RPM.

Analog tachograph register it`s reading on waxed paper disc.
Analog tachographs are easy to be cheated on therefore are replaced by digital units.

It is a European Union requirement that all the trucks and buses have tachographs. I wonder if any of You have used such thing, or is any company using it. Rumors are that TMC installs these devices on their trucks.
 
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I don't of anybody who uses the old Tachographs anymore
 
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Our on board computers have some type of tachograph. They have figures for just about anything having to do with the truck. :?
 
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Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Our on board computers have some type of tachograph. They have figures for just about anything having to do with the truck. :?
I think he means the old Tach with the graph paper and the whole bit.
Maybe he means what you're talking about
 
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Originally Posted by Publius
(gr. tachos - speed + grapho - to write)
It is a measuring device combining speedometer and clock. Tachograph registers: the distance traveled, speed, and driver activity (time driving, resting). Some types also register engine`s RPM.

Analog tachograph register it`s reading on waxed paper disc.
Analog tachographs are easy to be cheated on therefore are replaced by digital units.

It is a European Union requirement that all the trucks and buses have tachographs. I wonder if any of You have used such thing, or is any company using it. Rumors are that TMC installs these devices on their trucks.

Not a chance over here. Im european too. they did have them but u cant make money with them on board. companies will not pay. you have to play with the log books here to make money or die trying
 
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think tachos are the wose thing they every done in the eu apart from the limeters that restrict ure truck to 56mph which is BS when it comes to 44ton and ure going up a hill by the time u get to the top ure truck is on its knees and as far as log books are concerned give me that as the tachos are too hard to get round would rather have log that l write on :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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Originally Posted by Jackrabbit379
Our on board computers have some type of tachograph. They have figures for just about anything having to do with the truck. :?
Originally Posted by yoopr
I think he means the old Tach with the graph paper and the whole bit.
Maybe he means what you're talking about
Oh ok. Yeah, that is a whole different deal.
 
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There are a lot of differences between USA and UE concerning truck driving.
I used to drive the mitsubishi fuso van in NY as my summer job during university vacation time. I drove with class D license.
In Europe it is considered to be a truck and tachometer together with the CDL type license is required.
Back here in Kraków i have been driving a mercedes sprinter delivery van (about 3 tons, no big deal). One day I was pulling a trailer and got inspected by DOT type officials. It turned out that such vehicle with a trailer required tachometer i did not have. I was fined $3000 which is the yearly income of some in this area!
 
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Mexican bus operators use the old style tachographs quite a bit.
 
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There are company's out there using tach charts. The company I work for uses the ARGO chart, made in Germany..and tough to fool with.
 
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