![]() “We had hoped that the operator would provide us with the authentication of Galileo positioning data for the market launch in August,” explains Matthias Kliché, Head of Legal Requirements in the Connected Commercial Vehicle Solutions business segment. The DTCO 4.1 already uses data from the European satellite navigation system Galileo, which will offer a future plus in data security. Data security is guaranteed by the legally required security certificate in accordance with the ISO/IEC-15408 standard with the EAL 4+ test level (Evaluation Assurance Level). These cards will become mandatory at the end of 2024. The DTCO 4.1 is also suitable for the new driver cards with expanded storage capacity from 28 to 56 days. A Bluetooth interface provides more connectivity, making it easy to read and control the tachograph on external devices such as smartphones. To achieve this, the vehicle position and border crossings are automatically detected via a GNSS module (Global Navigation Satellite System) and recorded in the mass memory. One of the most important tasks of the new DTCO 4.1 is the improved documentation of cabotage trips and driver posting. Continental recommends that the conversion be carried out during the legally prescribed tachograph inspection – this will reduce vehicle downtimes in workshops. What’s new is that commercial vehicles with a total weight of 2.5 and 3.5 tons traveling across borders will require a tachograph from July 2026. Existing vehicles used in cross-border traffic will also follow in two stages by August 2025. This is the first time in the now hundred-year history of the tachograph that legislators have assigned additional control functions to the tachograph – functions that go far beyond the recording of working and operating times.Īs provided for in the Implementing Regulation (EU 2021/1228), newly registered commercial vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of more than 3.5 metric tons must be equipped with second-version smart tachographs from August 21, 2023. The new second version of the smart tachograph will now enable the control and enforcement of these regulations. The mobility package not only changes rest periods, it primarily regulates the obligations to provide proof of cabotage trips and the posting of driving personnel. Better working conditions, equal competition conditions and more safety on the roads are the goals of Mobility Package 1, the regulations of which have been successively implemented.
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