Drivers' Hours & Tachographs.
Daily and weekly driving limits, rest requirements, and what's changing with Smart Tachograph 2.
The Working Time Regulations for mobile workers, and how they differ from drivers' hours
A 60-hour single-week cap, a 48-hour average, and night-work limits — the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations sit alongside drivers' hours rules, not instead of them, and cover different things.
30 July 2026 · 4 min readSmart Tachograph 2 becomes mandatory from July 2026 — what changes
Most newly-registered HGVs and PCVs, and vehicles on international journeys, need to be fitted with the second-generation smart tachograph from July 2026 — worth planning fleet renewals around, not discovering at the point of registration.
19 July 2026 · 5 min readDrivers' hours rules, explained: daily and weekly limits
9 hours daily driving, 56 hours weekly, 90 hours over any two weeks — the limits themselves are fixed, but the exceptions and reductions are where most confusion actually happens.
16 June 2026 · 5 min readRest and breaks: what actually counts under the drivers' hours rules
A 45-minute break has to be structured a specific way if it's split — and daily rest can be reduced, but only a limited number of times per week.
19 May 2026 · 5 min readThe most common tachograph infringements, and why they keep happening
Most infringements aren't drivers deliberately pushing limits — they're small, technical breaches of ordering and frequency rules that are genuinely easy to get wrong under normal working pressure.
24 March 2026 · 3 min readHow often to download tachograph data, and how long to keep it
Downloading is the part everyone remembers. Analysing it, and being able to produce it years later, is where operators fall short.
5 March 2026 · 5 min readManual tachograph entries: when they're needed and how to get them right
A manual entry is meant to cover the gaps a digital tachograph can't record on its own — used correctly it protects a driver; used carelessly it can create the exact discrepancy an examiner is trained to spot.