Our Tachograph technicians are fully conversant with both Analogue and Digital Tachographs, including the new SMART Tachographs (Annex 1c). We hold stocks of replacement tachographs and sender units to suit all makes, ensuring a rapid turn-around

Whether you need a periodic calibration, fault diagnosis or upgrade from analogue to digital, we can help. With competitive prices and a rapid turn-around you can rely upon Adam Bowes Commercials Ltd to ensure you are fully compliant with tachograph legislation.

Do you own a van or pick-up?

Do you tow a trailer?

If so, you may be falling foul of tachograph legislation as your gross train weight (the maximum laden weight of both the vehicle ­and trailer) may exceed 3.5 tons. In which case you must use a tachograph to record drivers’ hours etc.

We have completed many such installations on Ford, Mitsubishi and Isuzu vehicles.            Please don’t hesitate to call us to discuss your needs and obtain a competitive quote.

Horsebox owners!

Whilst many of you claim tachograph exemption (as you do not use your vehicles for hire or reward), are you aware of a potential issue with digital tachographs?

These are generally fitted to vehicles built from 2005 onwards, some types of tachograph use a back-up battery which preserves the information in the event of the main power supply being interrupted (by removal of the vehicle batteries, using an isolator switch or just simply if the main vehicle batteries go flat).

During bi-annual tachograph calibrations (which are a legal requirement for all ‘working’ trucks), this back-up battery is replaced. As horseboxes do not need these periodic calibrations, it is likely that the back-up battery has never been changed.

IF YOUR BACK-UP BATTERY FAILS, YOUR TACHOGRAPH HEAD NO LONGER WORK!

THIS WILL PREVENT YOUR SPEEDOMETER & ODOMETER FROM WORKING!

COST OF REPLACING BACK-UP BATTERY            £20.00

COST OF REPLACING TACHOGRAPH HEAD          £800.00

CALL US NOW FOR BACK-UP BATTERY REPLACEMENT