DTCO 4.1 smart tachograph as the answer to the mobility package
MOBILITY PACKAGE ADOPTED 8th July 2020 The Commission and the European Council have adopted the package of changes in EU regulations governing international road transport, the so-called "Mobility Package". The most important aspect of the mobility package is the set of rules on cabotage, which means that the tachograph will record border crossings, thus making it easier for authorities to monitor compliance with the rules on cabotage and the posting of workers. Continental VDO corporation, our business partner and tachograph manufacturer, welcomes the entry of the package into force. Digital tachographs of the new generation will have an important role to play. They will enable implementation of the guidelines set forth in the Mobility Package. The new DTCO 4.1 smart tachograph by Continental will register boarder crossing by means of GPS positioning. The device will also register the places where vehicles are loaded and unloaded. Authorities can use these data to check compliance with regulations, in particular those pertaining to market access and to posting of drivers. In fact, in addition to using GPS signals, it will be one of the first industrial applications to support Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) of signals from the Galileo system. The changes included in the Mobility Package will be gradually incorporated until 2026. The first of them have already entered into force in September.
The changes concern weekly rests of the driver, the driver's return to the base, the extension of driving hours (daily or weekly), as well as breaks in the case of a twoperson crew in the vehicle.
We welcome the use of the DTCO for monitoring compliance with the guidelines for cabotage and posting of workers, and we think it is good that tachographs will now be mandatory for vehicles with gross weights between 2.5 and 3.5 metric tons engaged in international transport” –says Gilles Mabire, Head of the Commercial Vehicles & Services business unit at Continental. The Mobility Package will ensure fair competition in the European transport industry and promote better safety. That is very good news.” – adds Gilles Mabire. Work on the next generation, the DTCO 4.1, has already begun at Continental's tachograph manufacturing center in Schwarzwald. We've been following the work on the Mobility Package very closely and have already drawn up technical scenarios for recording border crossings,” – says Dirk Gandras, Continental's manager in charge of tachograph development.
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