(05 May 2014, 5:32 pm)tyresmoke wrote As said Arriva are not the only ones doing it. Stagecoach and Go North East both use this practice, as do operators elsewhere in the country (look at the Dalesbus network for example!).
I'm not sure how much money there is to be saved from not having the tachographs themselves, I've heard around £1000 per vehicle but not sure how true that is?
I guess the real savings to be had are in the rotas, where domestic rules are less restrictive than EU rules in terms of weekly driving hours and rest days.
Does this apply to TFL too? Or is that straying into a whole new territory? I can see Arriva and other operators be scheming in London just as well as they are in other parts of the country.