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readESM – Reading Digital Tachograph files

For several years now, new trucks sold in the European union are equipped with digital tachographs, that record the driving times and replace the older chart-based mechanical tachographs.

For companies in road transport that means, although in theory they get nice data about their drivers and vehicles, in practice they have to pay a lot of money for the digital tachograph and the associated equipment, which is then used against them – the old fraud schemes no longer work, the machine cruelly gives every police officer the driving times of the last 28 days (and could give much more).

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