What's not to like about Remote Tachograph Downloads?

As the telematics industry has matured there are more and more features available that can add significant benefits to fleet operators.

One benefit I personally can see no downside to is linking in with the tachograph to not only provide live tachograph information for Working Time Directive compliance, the fact that the downloads can be automated and transmitted via the GPS tracking unit just seems a no-brainer to me.

Say you're running a fleet of 18 HGV's that operate nationally and tend to return to the depot on Fridays so maintenance and the like can be conducted by the workshop on a Saturday and they're all out again early doors on Monday morning.

Most companies will have a manual procedure for downloading the tachograph data.

Say it takes 15 minutes per vehicle to manually download them by the time you've messed around getting the driver cards, getting into the vehicle and getting set up.

That's a whopping 270 minutes a week (nearly 4 hours) that someone, usually relatively senior within the company, could be spending doing something much more productive.

Look at it on a monthly basis, it's almost 20 hours of unnecessary management time wasted on a manual laborious task.

You're going to get real time visibility in the depot for when your drivers need their breaks, plan and monitor routing and ETA's more effectively as well as getting this time back.

Could you make use of 20 hours management time every month?

I'd love to hear what people think on this issue, if we can help by giving you this management time back with remote tachograph downloads please feel free to get in touch on 01254 914 538.