How often does a tachograph need calibrating (3 figures)
The Tacho Statutory Duties carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 28 to 56 day, read 17 October 2026.
3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 17 October 2026.
By jurisdiction
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdictionGreat Britain, records carried by the driver | 28day | 28 to 28day | 1 |
| jurisdictionIreland, tachograph record keeping | 56day | 56 to 56day | 1 |
| jurisdictionGreat Britain, international work under the TCA | 56day | 56 to 56day | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Road Safety Authority (Ireland), Smart tachograph 2 | 56day | Ireland, tachograph record keeping | 2026-10-17 |
| The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2025 | 56day | Great Britain, international work under the TCA | 2026-10-17 |
| Retained Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs | 28day | Great Britain, records carried by the driver | 2026-10-17 |
The sentence each figure was read from (3)
- Road Safety Authority (Ireland), Smart tachograph 2, read 2026-10-17:
Tachograph record keeping for 56 days
- The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2025, read 2026-10-17:
Regulation 3 modifies Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 to implement the requirement under Article 10 of Section 4 of Part B of Annex 31 to the TCA, which requires drivers of vehicles within scope of that Article to keep tachograph records for 56 days, rather than 28 days. These amendments are consequential to changes being made by regulations 2(4) and 3(2).
- Retained Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs, read 2026-10-17:
the record sheets for the current day and those used by the driver in the previous 28 days,
Read in full, publishes no figure
7 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799, Annex 1C, read 2026-10-17: every candidate on the page was refused
- GOV.UK, Tachographs: rules for drivers and operators, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment) Regulations 2023, read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- European Commission, stronger and more unified enforcement of EU rules (19 August 2025), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK, Drivers' hours: rules and guidance (collection), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK, Drivers' hours and tachographs: goods vehicles - 4. Tachograph rules, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK, Drivers' hours and tachographs: buses and coaches - 5. Responsibilities of vehicle operators, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
3 of the 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 31 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per duty per vehicle class per regime - the interval (digital 2-yearly test, analogue 2-yearly inspection and 6-yearly recalibration), the retrofit deadline by date of first registration, the regulation number behind it, and whether it bites on domestic or international work only - for GB, Northern Ireland and the EU side by side.
The derivation is the ANSWER A DATE PRODUCES: given a vehicle's registration date, tachograph generation and route, which deadline has already passed and which is next; and the changed-since as each amending instrument lands.
31 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (11)
- Retained Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799, Annex 1C(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK, Tachographs: rules for drivers and operators(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment) Regulations 2023(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- European Commission, stronger and more unified enforcement of EU rules (19 August 2025)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Road Safety Authority (Ireland), Smart tachograph 2(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK, Drivers' hours: rules and guidance (collection)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK, Drivers' hours and tachographs: goods vehicles - 4. Tachograph rules(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK, Drivers' hours and tachographs: buses and coaches - 5. Responsibilities of vehicle operators(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- transport.ec.europa.eu(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Tacho Statutory Duties carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 28 to 56 day, read 17 October 2026.
3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 17 October 2026.
Tacho Statutory Duties, jurisdiction Great Britain, records carried by the driver: median 28 day across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
Tacho Statutory Duties, jurisdiction Ireland, tachograph record keeping: median 56 day across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
Tacho Statutory Duties, jurisdiction Great Britain, international work under the TCA: median 56 day across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
Cite as: "tachocalibration.co.uk Tacho Statutory Duties", updated 2026-10-18, https://tachocalibration.co.uk/datasets/tacho-statutory-duties/.
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