Passed my class 2 a few weeks ago and start my new career with an agency tomorrow. I did the tacho and working hours element of the CPC cos I needed to know this stuff, but as others have said, they don't show you how to use the tacho, which I thought they would. I mean they should, it's a fundamental part of trucking. Anyhoo, watched your video and it seems straight forward but will save the video so I can refer to it at 05.00, lol. Thank you
Best explanation I've seen of this thanks 👍 I'm a new driver and it's been like trying to read hieroglyphs for me. First day in a wagon for me today and, despite passing the theory test, was clueless about using the machine in the real world.
cheers Luke! First day as a HGV driver today and I've watched his video a few times because as you say we aren't taught how to do this! We should be, it's a legal requirement to know this stuff.
Things have changed since i drove trucks in the UK 20yrs ago, we had round carbon tacho discs that you placed behind the speedometer! Here in New Zealand we still use the old paper log books!! Keep on truckin!
Cheers buddy. I' ve just passed my class 2 and I haven't a clue how you use the tachograph . Seems simple enough , just getting an idea before I start a job.
Many thanks. Returning to class 1 after a 12 year break and they've brought in these digi tachos since I last drove HGV and this video has helped a lot.
Hi Luke cheers for all the info in your vids , love it as I understand it . Started watching you about 2 months ago , you made me change my career, so in the last 2 months I’ve went from being a school caretaker passed class 2 and class 1 , got myself a job Monday been doing extra training this week in the yard getting ready for my first solo and shitting it lol
Hi Luke. Just got a 7.5 tonne job and I cant wait to start. You are the first place I came to, to learn. Great channel..... Ps I am doing my Class 2 in 6 months time....
Thanks Luke!Started two days ago.Had to say that i know how to work tacho just to get the job.Just after pulling in for my 30 and basically shitting myself coz didn't know for how long exactly i was driving.After your video i know how to check how much of driving time i have left snd etc.THANK YOU SO MUCH!👍💪
Hi there Luke mate. I have a question. What do you do with your taco card when you get out your truck? Say your at the services on the motorway and you want some food. Do you take your card out or leave it in and only take it out at the end of the day?? Please reply bud.
I done a 10 hour day 2 days ago and didn’t record any breaks as I’m useless with the taco machine and I told the guys back at base and they kindly said they would put me with someone for the whole day just to get clued up with it all but now I have watched this video it all seems a bit of a waste of time I think I ACTUALLY get it!! Thanks for the helpful video 👍
I am picking up a van for the first time next week that uses a tacho. It's just a straight pickup and drive to a destination. The journey time might take me over 4.5 hrs but I am not sure. if I need to stop for a break, do I just stop and the tacho goes into break or do I have to set it. Once I have had the break do I just start driving again or again do I need to set it?
Great stuff luke c. So, If I was stuck in a que on the motorway for an hr for example would the tacho symbol change to other work to save driving hrs ? Thanks in advance
Thanks I'm going on a course to calibrate tacho machines so it was great to get a introduction on how to use the basic functions so thank you very much.
Passed class 2 today. I dont own a digi card yet my company has asked me to drive the 7ht waggon tomorrow is it ok to drive it or do i need to have my digi card ?
Luke, when you want to take a full 45min break do you just let it tick over or do you need to do another input on the tacho? .. thanks m8 video really helped
Quick question Luke. You ejected your card while tacho was set on other work. If you start a new day like you showed without doing manual entry how the time between ejection and insertion will be recorded? I'm assuming as a break right? Tacho thinks if you don't have anything to put on using manual Entry that means you were on your break?
Hi luke do you ever have to do manual entries and if so for what reason? I thought as long as you enter card at shift start show 15 minutes for checks and show breaks in accordance with law your fine i cant get my head around manual entry on day to day basis any answers would be good cheers
@@anthonyhudson4318 I do a manual entry each day I start at 4am I put the card in then it asks if I want a manual entry click yes then I go to yesterday's date then add 15-20 minutes of other work on to my finish time to cover for things like paperwork and vehicle checks then click ok it will take you on to the current day then enter that you was on rest until your start tim e.g 4 am click ok then enter again it will still be on the same date (today's) then it will say the current time with other work simble then just click enter and that should be about it. But believe it or not you can get tacho simulators to practice on so you don't get an infringement. Hope this kind of helps.
There can be a few reasons like as stitchupman said to cover time in the office/dispatch doing paperwork or if you drive a vehicle that does not have a tacho fitted. A bus driver only has to record the driving if the route is over 50km, but as soon as they do 1 50km route (eu rules) all driving including under 50km (domestic rules) have to be recorded and not all buses are tachoed so manual entry is required. i can't remember for how long though.
great vids mate , firms putting though lgv ., to drive a 7.5 tonner , passed medical , now booked to do cpc , hazard pep , and lorry therory , Can you tell me the best revision tools? brought DVSA , but at a loss , with how complicated the whole thing is !!!!! total disppear lol
+Luke C in a HGV +fastasfox I was just wondering if one of you could answer this please , at the beginning of this video no manual entry was done witch is cool clearly no work to add on from the previous shift but how would u put you're daily rest in with out a entry or does the tacho do this automatically ?
Nice 1 pal, I am a driver in the forces and we do not use tachograph. I am looking at doing some agency driving for some extra cash and this video will definately help me out when I get in a Lorry.
Hi mate just passed my class2 very helpful can i ask say if i started my shift at 7am and i did 1 hour of work and then 2hours of driving and 1hour 30min of work total of 4 and half hours do i take a 45min break?
When I reach to 4.5 driving time, Do I need to start my break spot on time? Or can I start few minutes before or after depending on when I get safe parking space?
Confused if you do 15 min break in six hours then another 30 on sixth hour if you had say hour half driving time left in the four and half what happens to the hour and half you had left? Any answers please
All you can do is keep driving, get a printout and write on it the reason why, e.g. Stuck in traffic, road, time. POA is you're stopped but maybe required to move at any time (I think)
POA is when you KNOW IN ADVANCE you will be sitting around doing fuck all, it saves your driving hours. So you go from the yard to 1st delivery..you know it ain't open for another 30 mins/hour etc, whack it on POA instead of other work
What do you do if you're due a break but get delayed in traffic or something else and can't get to a suitable place on time to have your break? Sorry about basic question but I've just started theory training.
You carry on and stop “in a safe place” Not necessarily the first available space. Do s print out and explain you were caught in traffic, sign and date it and keep it for a calendar month. 🤙🏻
Hope that passed bud. I'm in the same situation this morning. No help from amyone as to how to operate the tachograph. This video helped but I still am feeling short of confidence with the breaks 😬
Interesting, I was a hitchhiker years back, so been in many trucks. Back in the day thay had tacko discs, I guess to register a break, you just stopped, and it would "record" a flat line? Then You looked at your watch. Keepsafe sir.
Great video luke. Iv just started driving a cement mixer and already have a infringement on my 3rd day. I'm really struggling to get my head around it all.
Thank you so much for this I am just coming back to driving wagons more familiar with the old disc type. But on new vehicles now have digital tachos so very helpful to me. Regards Andy.
One thing that's confusing me, if you take your break outside of the veichle, such as a staff canteen, how do you record it? Do you have to leave your tacho in the cab while your away set to break? Also if your doing say multidrop, when out unloading do you just leave your tacho in? Thanks
If I'm driving for a tree surgery company and I'm only driving to a job site in the morning and then back to the yard in the evening then am I supposed to use the tacho? Thanks
hi there OK I'm an American CDL A driver we run tractor trailers I'm out of Dallas TX USA and plan to relocate get my HGV class 1 as I've already GOT 11 yrs experience.... question#1) do UK HGV employeers I.e. Eddie Stobart Logistics train Americans and perhaps cover some or all costs ? question#2) I'm relocating for marriage have a working HGV CV now and my timeline is June 2018 any advice ? thanks again yall Monica
dont forget manual entries its compulsory or face heavy fines for repeating the offence. its as obvious as night follows day that your day started before you inserted your card
Brilliant......so basically I can just leave it on hammers until I take a break.............I usually have 10 mins break a couple of times...obviously this won't register as a break then? Btw why would I ever use the driving symbol then if it switches automatically?
Sorry I don't understand your question. It's abit jumbled. Also, not sure if your quoting me or telling me what you do. I recorded this video almost 3 years ago.
Hi Luke i hope you are doing well and healthy. I need your help i work for two different companies as a Refuse driver my first job starts at 2pm finshes at 10pm and second starts at 23pm and finshes 4am. How long break should i take for firs job and second. Plus when i finish first job should i press YES OR NO on the 24HRS.
Aren’t you supposed to use local time of the car registration country? If you work in the UK and it is summer time, use that one, not UTC. If your truck is registered in Italy and you work in the UK, you use Italian local time. This is the law, am I right?
You can still move the truck without a card in. You simply do a manual entry the next day to account for that time 🤙🏻 This was recorded quite a while ago but I do believe the truck was left on the pump at the time. If the truck was in the way then someone else could move it
hi mate can u give me a demo to do a manuel entries when changing trucks plz? I can do a manuel entrie but when the boss get into another truck i got to do a another manuel entrie. and dont how to do it.
Where can you actually park, in my learning materials, there was question about it and the answers was that you cannot park on the grass verge unless you have police permission, I see many drivers parking on the verges, so is that mean that practically it is permitted?
Damian Joniec you can park anywhere pretty much, a lot of the things that they tell you is fear mongering, you think it's dead strickt util you start working as a hgv driver. Most of the things they tell you is bullshit. I park on double yellow lines a lot of the time when am Parking up for the night, think about it, parking wardens are the only people who give a fuck but your back on the road that early in the morning you will garenteed be gone by the time there even getting ready for work. I have even park outside service stations that even has signs saying 'no parking police prosecution in action' but they will never come and wake you up, not a single person has been done who I know and they have been parking in them places for many years. seriously the police don't bother hgv drivers for sleeping, and also when you park up in an area with signs or double yellows give it one hour and another 2 or 3 hgv's join you for the night lol trust me bro, a lot of the things in them tests are total bullshit. Iv fucked my Tachograph a few times but still never been pulled and if it's passed 28 days then they can't do anything, it just stays on your record for 12 months until you over lap it the following year. The only thing they will do is mark your reg so they know to keep an eye on you so you might get pulled again if they see you but the chances of them pulling you anytime soon after that is very very slim.
When Luke pressed the OK button at 8:02 to confirm NO, if he pressed either the up/down arrows and selected Yes then pressed OK. The machine would print a receipt of Luke's last 24 hours actives. Most companies don't like their drivers to do this as the paper roll are expensive.
Beware it is the driver's responsibility to make sure the tachograph machine prints correctly and there is a roll in the print head with enough paper for the print out, plus it is also the drivers responsibility to have a spare roll in their possessions. If either the machine print head is empty or the drive doesn't have a print roll The Driving Agency/Police can give the driver a fine. I believe it is around £200 per time.
@@Sammyboy1991 cool. It's a shame no one mentions you need to buy one I only found out by luck before I passed I spoke to a driver i asked where he got it from.
actually you can move in your break time. but only for less than a half minute. in that 30seconds you have to get the vehicle to a complete stop and Press the button again, otherwise you have to do the whole 15 or 30 minutes over. I actually took the 15 min breaks in a traffic jam a couple of times like that.
If your driving for 10 hours in a day ,can you take a 45 min after 5 hours or is it still after 4.5 hours. I'm between theory and practical tests so trying to learn still.😊
+Felix Herald BEFORE 4 hours and 30 minutes of driving you must have a full 45 minute break. You can have 15 in the morning, then 30 after, or you can have 45 in one go.
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Passed my class 2 a few weeks ago and start my new career with an agency tomorrow. I did the tacho and working hours element of the CPC cos I needed to know this stuff, but as others have said, they don't show you how to use the tacho, which I thought they would. I mean they should, it's a fundamental part of trucking. Anyhoo, watched your video and it seems straight forward but will save the video so I can refer to it at 05.00, lol.
Thank you
janet180971 How u been getting on these last 10 months on the job? BTW Do your class 1 so much better.
Best explanation I've seen of this thanks 👍 I'm a new driver and it's been like trying to read hieroglyphs for me. First day in a wagon for me today and, despite passing the theory test, was clueless about using the machine in the real world.
First time out in my own tomorrow. Tacho machine making me anxious ha far to over complicated
As a new Driver i find your videos very helpful and would like to say thanks alot and keep up the good work :)
cheers Luke! First day as a HGV driver today and I've watched his video a few times because as you say we aren't taught how to do this! We should be, it's a legal requirement to know this stuff.
Bobby Havard how did you get on? I’m intrigued.
Things have changed since i drove trucks in the UK 20yrs ago, we had round carbon tacho discs that you placed behind the speedometer! Here in New Zealand we still use the old paper log books!! Keep on truckin!
Cheers buddy. I' ve just passed my class 2 and I haven't a clue how you use the tachograph . Seems simple enough , just getting an idea before I start a job.
Class 2 was replaced with Category C in 1992.
Maxsdiscos what a nob chop!
@@Maxsdiscos everyone says class 2
That's the most helpful video on using a tacho I've come across, thank you. New subscriber.
Many thanks. Returning to class 1 after a 12 year break and they've brought in these digi tachos since I last drove HGV and this video has helped a lot.
Im just about to get back into trucking also after a 12 year break. How did you find it after so long ?
Hi Luke cheers for all the info in your vids , love it as I understand it . Started watching you about 2 months ago , you made me change my career, so in the last 2 months I’ve went from being a school caretaker passed class 2 and class 1 , got myself a job Monday been doing extra training this week in the yard getting ready for my first solo and shitting it lol
That is so very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to hep us novices.
Hi Luke. Just got a 7.5 tonne job and I cant wait to start. You are the first place I came to, to learn. Great channel..... Ps I am doing my Class 2 in 6 months time....
Thanks Luke!Started two days ago.Had to say that i know how to work tacho just to get the job.Just after pulling in for my 30 and basically shitting myself coz didn't know for how long exactly i was driving.After your video i know how to check how much of driving time i have left snd etc.THANK YOU SO MUCH!👍💪
Hi there Luke mate. I have a question. What do you do with your taco card when you get out your truck? Say your at the services on the motorway and you want some food. Do you take your card out or leave it in and only take it out at the end of the day?? Please reply bud.
You explained this in a way that's really easy to understand, so thank you for that 🙏
So if you get stuck In Traffic, will it be classed as other work? So technically could be behind the week for 5 hours
I can remember when the tachyon are was a round card disc ☺️
I done a 10 hour day 2 days ago and didn’t record any breaks as I’m useless with the taco machine and I told the guys back at base and they kindly said they would put me with someone for the whole day just to get clued up with it all but now I have watched this video it all seems a bit of a waste of time I think I ACTUALLY get it!! Thanks for the helpful video 👍
I am picking up a van for the first time next week that uses a tacho. It's just a straight pickup and drive to a destination. The journey time might take me over 4.5 hrs but I am not sure. if I need to stop for a break, do I just stop and the tacho goes into break or do I have to set it. Once I have had the break do I just start driving again or again do I need to set it?
Cheers Luke gotta be the best video on tachos for new drivers
Great stuff luke c.
So, If I was stuck in a que on the motorway for an hr for example would the tacho symbol change to other work to save driving hrs ?
Thanks in advance
I had the same question but haven’t been able to get an answer yet.
Very useful, Just done my 7.5 CPC and will be using tachos next week!
Hi if you take your card out of one truck and put it straight into another truck do you have to put in a manual entry.
Thanks I'm going on a course to calibrate tacho machines so it was great to get a introduction on how to use the basic functions so thank you very much.
Starting part CPC 35 hrs. Looking forward to starting class 2 and then onto HGV 1
What model of GPS would u recommend
What if you only work weekends have I got to put in what time I finshed last Saturday? Well confusing any help?
Passed class 2 today. I dont own a digi card yet my company has asked me to drive the 7ht waggon tomorrow is it ok to drive it or do i need to have my digi card ?
Luke, when you want to take a full 45min break do you just let it tick over or do you need to do another input on the tacho? .. thanks m8 video really helped
Quick question Luke. You ejected your card while tacho was set on other work. If you start a new day like you showed without doing manual entry how the time between ejection and insertion will be recorded? I'm assuming as a break right? Tacho thinks if you don't have anything to put on using manual Entry that means you were on your break?
Hi luke do you ever have to do manual entries and if so for what reason? I thought as long as you enter card at shift start show 15 minutes for checks and show breaks in accordance with law your fine i cant get my head around manual entry on day to day basis any answers would be good cheers
I also would like to know this too
@@anthonyhudson4318 I do a manual entry each day I start at 4am I put the card in then it asks if I want a manual entry click yes then I go to yesterday's date then add 15-20 minutes of other work on to my finish time to cover for things like paperwork and vehicle checks then click ok it will take you on to the current day then enter that you was on rest until your start tim e.g 4 am click ok then enter again it will still be on the same date (today's) then it will say the current time with other work simble then just click enter and that should be about it. But believe it or not you can get tacho simulators to practice on so you don't get an infringement. Hope this kind of helps.
There can be a few reasons like as stitchupman said to cover time in the office/dispatch doing paperwork or if you drive a vehicle that does not have a tacho fitted. A bus driver only has to record the driving if the route is over 50km, but as soon as they do 1 50km route (eu rules) all driving including under 50km (domestic rules) have to be recorded and not all buses are tachoed so manual entry is required. i can't remember for how long though.
great vids mate , firms putting though lgv ., to drive a 7.5 tonner , passed medical , now booked to do cpc , hazard pep , and lorry therory , Can you tell me the best revision tools? brought DVSA , but at a loss , with how complicated the whole thing is !!!!! total disppear lol
+Luke C in a HGV +fastasfox I was just wondering if one of you could answer this please , at the beginning of this video no manual entry was done witch is cool clearly no work to add on from the previous shift but how would u put you're daily rest in with out a entry or does the tacho do this automatically ?
Nice 1 pal, I am a driver in the forces and we do not use tachograph. I am looking at doing some agency driving for some extra cash and this video will definately help me out when I get in a Lorry.
Did you ever get round to doing the agency work ?
Hi mate just passed my class2 very helpful can i ask say if i started my shift at 7am and i did 1 hour of work and then 2hours of driving and 1hour 30min of work total of 4 and half hours do i take a 45min break?
When I reach to 4.5 driving time,
Do I need to start my break spot on time?
Or can I start few minutes before or after depending on when I get safe parking space?
Hi, Luke why my tachograph change to break every time I stop ?
Confused if you do 15 min break in six hours then another 30 on sixth hour if you had say hour half driving time left in the four and half what happens to the hour and half you had left? Any answers please
Hello luke. Question: can you take the keys out the ignition while you're on break and will it still register on the tachograph timer?
+Kieran Jones yes you can
Brave topic buddy, sooooo many pit falls. Hope your well. I notice you still have your troll hanging on....i will click like to cancel it out lol.
Cheers mate very usefull about to start my first job as a driver in 1 week and didn't want to go into it not knowing.
Great Video , You have made it easy to understand for a newbie ..
Nice video I liked it, one question is the job easier if you drive fuel tanker or car loader, do you get to sleep home everynight?
Idiot
What's POA (Period of availability) used for?
Also if you can't take your breaks what do you do?
All you can do is keep driving, get a printout and write on it the reason why, e.g. Stuck in traffic, road, time. POA is you're stopped but maybe required to move at any time (I think)
POA is when you KNOW IN ADVANCE you will be sitting around doing fuck all, it saves your driving hours.
So you go from the yard to 1st delivery..you know it ain't open for another 30 mins/hour etc, whack it on POA instead of other work
What is classed as a 24 hour day?
Cheers mate for the very useful video. Much appreciated.
you can change the time to actual time rather than leave it with the hour difference? (if that makes sense)
Had no clue how to use one. Cheers mate
What do you do if you're due a break but get delayed in traffic or something else and can't get to a suitable place on time to have your break? Sorry about basic question but I've just started theory training.
You carry on and stop “in a safe place”
Not necessarily the first available space. Do s print out and explain you were caught in traffic, sign and date it and keep it for a calendar month. 🤙🏻
@@lukecinahgv top man! Cheers.
What's the procedure for the very first time use ?? (new qual driver) Is it the same?? Thanks
Really good video, best I’ve seen on YT and you made it easy to understand. Thanks
What's better HGV or LGVwhich is better or pay etc
I'm so happy about my new job, and nervous at the same time
Hope that passed bud. I'm in the same situation this morning. No help from amyone as to how to operate the tachograph. This video helped but I still am feeling short of confidence with the breaks 😬
Interesting, I was a hitchhiker years back, so been in many trucks. Back in the day thay had tacko discs, I guess to register a break, you just stopped, and it would "record" a flat line? Then You looked at your watch. Keepsafe sir.
This “taco” thing seems strange. We don’t have them in Australia but I guess it’s something like a digital version of our log book.
Yea same idea pal just digital rather than written
Great video luke. Iv just started driving a cement mixer and already have a infringement on my 3rd day. I'm really struggling to get my head around it all.
That's too bad, and only on your 3rd day too. May I ask what the infringement was to maybe help myself and others potentially avoid the same?
Thank you so much for this I am just coming back to driving wagons more familiar with the old disc type. But on new vehicles now have digital tachos so very helpful to me.
Regards Andy.
Have you done a cpc course on this?
Liked the video on how to use tacho.. much better explained then my cpc class. keep posting the videos
Luke C in a HVG didnt you have to change to 'BED' before taking it out after work?
One thing that's confusing me, if you take your break outside of the veichle, such as a staff canteen, how do you record it? Do you have to leave your tacho in the cab while your away set to break? Also if your doing say multidrop, when out unloading do you just leave your tacho in? Thanks
do u always need too do a manual entry
Are truck drivers MUGS OR HEROES i cant work it out yet
If I'm driving for a tree surgery company and I'm only driving to a job site in the morning and then back to the yard in the evening then am I supposed to use the tacho? Thanks
RUBB3R BULL3T yes
hi there OK I'm an American CDL A driver we run tractor trailers I'm out of Dallas TX USA and plan to relocate get my HGV class 1 as I've already GOT 11 yrs experience.... question#1) do UK HGV employeers I.e. Eddie Stobart Logistics train Americans and perhaps cover some or all costs ?
question#2) I'm relocating for marriage have a working HGV CV now and my timeline is June 2018
any advice ? thanks again yall
Monica
dont forget manual entries its compulsory or face heavy fines for repeating the offence. its as obvious as night follows day that your day started before you inserted your card
Hgv drivers should get minimum £20 and hour for all the shit they have to put up with
So is the engine running when you are doing your checks?
Yes. You need the engine on to build air and check for air leaks. Amongst other things
Start my lessons on the 10th of June thanks for you help
Thanks for this I've been doing my theory revision and now it all makes sense 👍
do you work week ends ?
Brilliant......so basically I can just leave it on hammers until I take a break.............I usually have 10 mins break a couple of times...obviously this won't register as a break then? Btw why would I ever use the driving symbol then if it switches automatically?
Sorry I don't understand your question. It's abit jumbled.
Also, not sure if your quoting me or telling me what you do. I recorded this video almost 3 years ago.
@@lukecinahgv ..just trying to get my head round the breaks.....got it now..I think......a 15 and a 30 in 4.5 hours driving
@@johnw2758 Thats basic stuff that mate, how did you get a license!
@@39LFC Cos I've only ever driven under domestic rules mate...never had to use a tacho
Hi Luke i hope you are doing well and healthy. I need your help i work for two different companies as a Refuse driver my first job starts at 2pm finshes at 10pm and second starts at 23pm and finshes 4am. How long break should i take for firs job and second. Plus when i finish first job should i press YES OR NO on the 24HRS.
First job THE COMPANY USE tacho card and second one THEY use a BOOK
Aren’t you supposed to use local time of the car registration country? If you work in the UK and it is summer time, use that one, not UTC. If your truck is registered in Italy and you work in the UK, you use Italian local time. This is the law, am I right?
So now you have taken out the card are you not supposed to move.if so what if someone else needs fuel and you have to move
You can still move the truck without a card in. You simply do a manual entry the next day to account for that time 🤙🏻
This was recorded quite a while ago but I do believe the truck was left on the pump at the time. If the truck was in the way then someone else could move it
Thanks mate that's very helpful. starting the driving job soon.
Say in your break you want to go to the shop etc do you leave your card in the truck? Or take it out?
Oh look there's a dislike on the video! Haha
hi mate can u give me a demo to do a manuel entries when changing trucks plz? I can do a manuel entrie but when the boss get into another truck i got to do a another manuel entrie. and dont how to do it.
Where can you actually park, in my learning materials, there was question about it and the answers was that you cannot park on the grass verge unless you have police permission, I see many drivers parking on the verges, so is that mean that practically it is permitted?
Damian Joniec you can park anywhere pretty much, a lot of the things that they tell you is fear mongering, you think it's dead strickt util you start working as a hgv driver. Most of the things they tell you is bullshit. I park on double yellow lines a lot of the time when am Parking up for the night, think about it, parking wardens are the only people who give a fuck but your back on the road that early in the morning you will garenteed be gone by the time there even getting ready for work. I have even park outside service stations that even has signs saying 'no parking police prosecution in action' but they will never come and wake you up, not a single person has been done who I know and they have been parking in them places for many years. seriously the police don't bother hgv drivers for sleeping, and also when you park up in an area with signs or double yellows give it one hour and another 2 or 3 hgv's join you for the night lol trust me bro, a lot of the things in them tests are total bullshit. Iv fucked my Tachograph a few times but still never been pulled and if it's passed 28 days then they can't do anything, it just stays on your record for 12 months until you over lap it the following year. The only thing they will do is mark your reg so they know to keep an eye on you so you might get pulled again if they see you but the chances of them pulling you anytime soon after that is very very slim.
Thank you,,, for the upload it is a great help
Very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do this video.
Thanks bro take care God always be with you 🙏 🙌 🌷
Shalom my friend 🙏
you got CB Radio in yer cab?
Very helpful indeed
many thanks, very useful vid cos as you say no one tells you how to use them your just expected to know
i am thinking about doing this is it all good to do
how do you change the month
What about doing a printout as well for today's work you have been doing, how would you do that?
When Luke pressed the OK button at 8:02 to confirm NO, if he pressed either the up/down arrows and selected Yes then pressed OK. The machine would print a receipt of Luke's last 24 hours actives. Most companies don't like their drivers to do this as the paper roll are expensive.
Beware it is the driver's responsibility to make sure the tachograph machine prints correctly and there is a roll in the print head with enough paper for the print out, plus it is also the drivers responsibility to have a spare roll in their possessions. If either the machine print head is empty or the drive doesn't have a print roll The Driving Agency/Police can give the driver a fine. I believe it is around £200 per time.
@@Oheky I always get a printout each day for my own piece of mind.
Do you not put it on rest/break before you finish?
I never do but the following day I do manual entry and tell it that way.
does it switch to other work in traffic ?
Yes
ok
Brilliant videos mate thanks for the good work I just got much class 2.
Hi Luke. Will you have to buy the Tachograph card once you gain your Cat C license?
Yes it's about £30 but you can get one anytime you don't need a hgv licence to have a digi card.
@@stichupman Cheers mate. I have already bought one now anyway.
@@Sammyboy1991 cool. It's a shame no one mentions you need to buy one I only found out by luck before I passed I spoke to a driver i asked where he got it from.
@@stichupman I would've thought it would've been included in the course fee. But obviously not lol.
@@Sammyboy1991 no just another money spinner lol.
Hi what was -24h day "no" - mean when you about take the card out at 8.02 time ?
What if you change it to yes ?
+Call me Mr then it does a print out.
actually you can move in your break time. but only for less than a half minute. in that 30seconds you have to get the vehicle to a complete stop and Press the button again, otherwise you have to do the whole 15 or 30 minutes over. I actually took the 15 min breaks in a traffic jam a couple of times like that.
I would'nt recommend it mate!
Best video around, very helpful everything I need to know for monday cheers.
Cheers fella . New pass here . Was more scared of using and possibly screwing Tacho up then the actual driving class 2 :) .
Just been dumped in a lwb sprinter plus 20ft trailer!! Ace video, helped me a lot, cheers!
Flash me in when I pass ya ;)
thanks guss
Do they make lucus kienzle still
thank luke very usefull for us new drivers
If your driving for 10 hours in a day ,can you take a 45 min after 5 hours or is it still after 4.5 hours.
I'm between theory and practical tests so trying to learn still.😊
+Felix Herald BEFORE 4 hours and 30 minutes of driving you must have a full 45 minute break. You can have 15 in the morning, then 30 after, or you can have 45 in one go.
4.30.then break.no exceptions
You can only drive 10 hours 2 days of the week, every other is 9