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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 · 5 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.
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.