A driver working in road transport should be able to present documents for inspection. What period of time must be covered by the documents?
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Correct answer
A. The current day and preceding 28 days.
Explanation
In the photo, next to lorries driving along a main city road, a digital tachograph is shown. The documents that you must be able to show for inspection should cover the current day and the previous 28 days - answer A.
The EU Regulation on tachographs requires the driver to be able to show, at the request of the inspecting officer, record sheets or printouts and manual records for the current day and the previous days, the driver card, and also certificates for the days on which the driver did not drive the vehicle. The answer "the current and previous week" is the situation before May 2006, and 15 days applied only temporarily in 2006-2007. Note: since 31 December 2024 this period has been extended from 28 to 56 days, so today you really must have documents for the current day and the previous 56 days, although the exam answer key still gives 28 days. The inspecting officer treats a missing document for any day as a violation.
Legal basis: Art. 36 para. 1 and 2 of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014; Art. 31 para. 1 of the Drivers' Working Time Act