Monday, November 07, 2005

Dodgy Tachograph?

I had a call from Tollgate Hire this afternoon to apologise for the dodgy tachograph in the hire van at the weekend - I found this very confusing?

For those of you not "in the know", a tachograph records the movements of commercial vehicles including speed, distance travelled, time spent sitting still, whether it is towing etc.

Now the man at Tollgate said that either the recorder was playing up or that something very odd must have happened. According to the paper slip, at some point the van was recorded as being still on a relatively level surface, and attached to the trailer. After a short reversing motion the driver got out, the trailer was then removed, and the van travelled off...

It gets stranger.

It then says, having travelled some distance, the driver's door was opened, someone got in, and the van was brought to a swift halt.

How very confusing?

Perhaps Mr Beever could explain how the van might move on its own!

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