Custom tachograph analysis and driving time app development
Appfront builds apps that help transport companies read, store and assess their tachograph data: which driver is close to an infringement, which driver card needs reading and which vehicle is falling behind. With an overview your planner can understand without a course.
What is a tachograph analysis and driving time app?
Tachograph analysis means importing and assessing the data from the digital tachograph. That data comes from two sources: the driver's driver card and the vehicle unit's mass storage in the lorry. Both produce DDD files, and both need to be read and stored at regular intervals.
The assessment covers the driving and rest times set out in Regulation (EC) 561/2006 and, for international transport outside the EU, additionally in the AETR Agreement. The tachograph itself is governed by Regulation (EU) 165/2014. In practice, what you want to know is simpler than those references: has someone driven for too long, has the daily rest been taken, and is a download overdue?
We build custom solutions because the analysis packages available are mainly designed for specialists. A planner wants to know who they can deploy tomorrow, and a fleet manager wants to know which card must be read this week. These are two different screens on the same data, and that is exactly what a standard package does not provide.
Reading and storing
DDD files from driver cards and vehicle units are received and stored for the retention period that applies to you.
Assessing
Driving and rest times are checked against the regulations, with an alert when limits are exceeded and when situations are heading towards an infringement.
Monitoring download deadlines
For each card and vehicle, you can see when the last download took place and which is due next.
How we build your tachograph analysis and driving time app
We start with the question of who uses the data and for what purpose. That determines the screen, and the screen determines whether the app gets used.
The planner, the fleet manager and the person preparing for an inspection each ask different questions of the same data. We define for each role what they need to see.
DDD files arrive from the card reader in the office, via a download device or via telematics in the vehicle. We connect to what you already have.
The checks are set up according to the regulations that apply to your transport, with room for the exceptions common in your sector.
Infringements and overdue downloads appear in a work queue. We then take the application into management and keep it up to date when the rules change.
What a tachograph analysis and driving time app actually does
Which components matter most depends on the size of your fleet and on whether you operate domestically or internationally.
Importing DDD files
Files from driver cards and vehicle units are imported, checked for completeness and stored.
Driving and rest time analysis
Driving time, breaks, and daily and weekly rest are checked, with the supporting detail shown so that every alert can be traced.
Download calendar
For each driver card and vehicle, you can see when the last download took place and which is due next.
Driver overview
For each driver, this week's position: driving time logged, rest taken and what that means for availability tomorrow.
Alerts and follow-up
An infringement is given a status and a follow-up, so you can see that something has been done about it.
Storing and demonstrating
The files are kept in their original form, so that during an inspection you can show what was downloaded and when.
For whom we build a driving time and tachograph analysis app
This software is intended for companies that drive their own lorries and are themselves responsible for compliance.
Transport companies
Driving and rest times determine who you can deploy tomorrow. You want to answer that question without first running an analysis report.
Logistics service providers
You drive your own vehicles and hired-in charters. You are responsible for your own vehicles, and you need to be able to demonstrate that.
Construction and waste companies
Transport is a means to an end for you, not a core activity. That is precisely when you want a simple overview without a specialist package.
Companies with international transport
Outside the EU, the AETR agreement applies alongside the European regulation. Your overview needs to work with both.
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We read the standard DDD files that the digital tachograph produces, and we align with the way you currently receive them. For the drivers themselves, we have a page on the driver app, and for logging trips and mileage there is trip logging software. You can read more about transport and logistics on building a transport app.
For the office side, covering follow-up of infringements, working hours and pay, there is our tachograph analysis and driving time software.
Why Appfront for your tachograph analysis and driving time app?
The analysis is not the difficult part. The difficult part is making the outcome usable for someone who is not a specialist.
Built for the planner
Not a forty-page report, but the answer to who can drive tomorrow and until what time.
Traceable signals
Every alert shows where it came from, right back to the underlying record. Without that basis, a signal gets ignored.
Stored the way it should be
The original files are kept alongside the analysis, so during an inspection you have the source material and not just your own summary.
Security and privacy for a tachograph analysis and driving time app
Tachograph data is personal data about your drivers: where someone drove, for how long, and when they rested. That is sensitive information and may only be used for the purpose the law requires it for. We build authorisation based on role, so a planner sees availability and not automatically the full history of an employee.
We store the files in their original form and encrypted, with a retention period that matches the legal obligation. Access is logged, so it is clear afterwards who viewed which data. During set-up, we look together with you at the legal basis and at what should appear in your record of processing activities.
Frequently asked questions about a tachograph analysis and driving time app
Questions transport companies ask about tachograph data.
Two sources. The driver card holds what an individual driver has driven and rested, including in other vehicles. The vehicle unit's mass storage holds what has happened with that vehicle, whichever driver was at the wheel. Both produce DDD files, and you need both for a complete picture.
These carry statutory time limits, which differ for the driver card and for the vehicle unit. We build the download schedule around those limits as a setting, so you can see which card or vehicle is due next. We check the applicable limits against the current regulations during set-up.
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 on driving and rest times, and Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on the tachograph itself. If you also drive outside the EU, the AETR Agreement applies too. We determine which rules apply to your transport together during set-up.
Often, yes. Many telematics systems can read out tachograph data remotely and make it available, which saves manual downloads with a card reader. What is possible depends on your supplier and the equipment in the vehicles; we investigate that before committing to anything.
Yes, and that is usually the main reason to start with this. Based on what has been driven and rested, the remaining capacity for each driver is visible. That saves the planner from guessing and prevents a trip being scheduled that is not permitted.
Yes. We store the DDD files as they arrive, alongside the analysis we make of them. In an inspection, the source material is what counts; a personal summary is not. Storage is encrypted and follows a retention period that matches your obligation.
Sometimes, yes. Particularly with a small fleet there is usually no specialist doing the analysis, and downloads get put off until someone remembers. Simple monitoring of download deadlines and an overview of availability then delivers most of the value, without a full analysis package.
Want your driving times clear and demonstrable?
Tell us how many vehicles and drivers you have and how you currently download data. We will look at your way of working with you and show what can be made clearer.