(12 Oct 2018, 10:30 pm)JM03 wrote Whats a tachograph

It's a device that requires a driver tachograph card. It records driver speed and driver hours. The card is credit card sized.

It gets complicated. Stop reading here if you don't like complicated things.

If you pass over 51km driving (or so) from the starting destination, your journey falls under "EU" driving rules, and this means less driving time and more strict breaks and definitions and the need for all of the following:
- A bus with a tachograph card reader
- A driver who has a tachograph card
- A driver who has enough hours left per week to be able to legally driver under EU rules (I can't remember the EU value, silly me wasnt long ago since I did my theory, I'm too young to driver under EU rules anyway....)

It's ultimately a silly idea for it to be used for local services because it means different drivers need different breaks and only certain buses can be used. As a result you won't see it used on anything but coach work now, the whole need for a tachograph (bus and driver), or Private Hire. It can be bypassed by splitting the route in half. X10 now goes to Dalton Park then Middlesborough and neither leg of the journey are more than 51km, where as the whole X10 journey end-to-end is. 685 is another good example of this splitting technique.

Tachographed buses still will be around for private hire which can easily excess the limits for domestic driving and are normally done in one continuous stretch. There's all sorts of examples of private hire that GNE do but someone else can go into that detail.

Domestic rules make more sense and are more flexible in most situations, less break time needed and more time behind the wheel allowed and any vehicle can be used.

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