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.

28 to 56 day Range of the published figures 3 published figures, not one market: read the rows
3 Published figures from 3 source pages, read 18 Oct 2026
3 of 10 Sources read that publish one 30% publish a figure at all
  1. Road Safety Authority (Ireland), Smart tachograph 256 day
  2. The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 202556 day
  3. Retained Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs28 day
Every published figure, highest first.
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RowValue
Road Safety Authority (Ireland), Smart tachograph 256 day
The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 202556 day
Retained Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs28 day

3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

By jurisdiction

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
jurisdictionGreat Britain, records carried by the driver28day28 to 28day1
jurisdictionIreland, tachograph record keeping56day56 to 56day1
jurisdictionGreat Britain, international work under the TCA56day56 to 56day1

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.

SourceFigureBreakdownRead
Road Safety Authority (Ireland), Smart tachograph 256dayIreland, tachograph record keeping2026-10-17
The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 202556dayGreat Britain, international work under the TCA2026-10-17
Retained Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs28dayGreat Britain, records carried by the driver2026-10-17
The sentence each figure was read from (3)

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.

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.

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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.

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28 to 56 day

3 published figures, Tacho Statutory Duties, across 3 sources, read 17 October 2026

Source: tachocalibration.co.uk Tacho Statutory Duties

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