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NederlandsDigital tachograph simulator
Three units you will find in European cabs, to practise without wasting a paper roll or risking a fine. Insert the card, make the manual entries, drive, stop, print the day and withdraw the card. The menus and messages follow each manufacturer’s manuals. Time can run up to 600 times faster. What you do in the simulator stays on your device.
Choose the tachograph you want to simulate
Tap: changes the activity. Press and hold: opens the card drawer.
0 km/h
Tachograph menu
Closed. With the lorry stopped, OK opens the menu.
Your times under the law (Reg. 561/2006)
Continuous driving
00h00
Maximum 4h30
Break in progress
00h00
45 min, or 15 + 30
Daily driving
00h00
Week
00h00
Maximum 56h
Two weeks
00h00
Maximum 90h
Tachograph clock
--:--
UTC
Daily record
M = manual entry
Session log
Guided exercises
Pick an exercise: the simulator follows each step and confirms when it is done.
What this simulator does and does not do
It takes you through the working day as on the real unit: insert the card with the driver key, answer the manual entries since the last withdrawal, declare the country, drive with the automatic activity, stop and set the break, print and withdraw the card with the end country. It also has multi-manning (SILVA M.’s card), out of scope, ferry, load and unload, and border crossings.
The menus, questions and messages follow each manufacturer’s official manuals: the VDO by action (printout, entry, display), the Stoneridge in four menus (PRINT, SETTINGS, PLACES, INFO) and the Actia with the SmarTach submenus. The tachograph speaks the card’s language — this page’s — and, on the VDO and the Stoneridge, it can be changed in the menu.
The counters under the tachograph are the legal ones (Regulation (EC) No 561/2006): 4h30 of continuous driving and a 45-minute break, or 15 + 30 in that order; 9 hours a day, or 10 twice a week; 56 hours in the week and 90 in two weeks; daily rest of 11 hours, or 9 up to three times between two weekly rests, or 3 + 9, which must fit within the 24 hours after the end of the previous rest (30 in multi-manning). The display shows what the tachograph calculates (Annex IC to Regulation (EU) 2016/799), which counts availability as a break; at a roadside check, availability does not count.
Tachograph rules the simulator follows: when you stop, the tachograph sets “other work” and the break has to be chosen with key 1 — on the smart tachograph, done within the next 2 minutes, it counts from the stop; on the Actia it counts from the key press. The 4h15 and 4h30 warnings are cleared with OK (on the Stoneridge they are messages, cleared with ↩). Overspeeding is only recorded after more than 1 minute above 90 km/h. The menu, printouts and card withdrawal only work with the lorry stopped.
The engine rumble is a real recording of a diesel V8, a Detroit Diesel 6.2, released into the public domain (CC0) on Wikimedia Commons. The sound starts off and is switched on with the button in the cab.
An independent simulator, not affiliated with the manufacturers VDO, Stoneridge or Actia. It does not replace the manufacturer’s manual and has no legal value. Left out: calibration (workshop card, at a technical centre), data download (company card), the length and compensation of weekly rest, and interruptions of rest on board a ferry.