VDO launches first GPS tachograph
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VDO HAS introduced this month the first tachograph with the option of an integrated record of vehicle position via GPS tracking data. When operators download the drivers' hours data, they can also take this additional position file: its position data can be merged with digital mapping software to create a 'snail trail' of the vehicle's journey.
Under European Commission proposals, GPS-enabled tachographs are scheduled to become mandatory on new trucks in 2017 but VDO is offering the technology long before that, starting with its DTCO 2.1 'active' tachograph, available as an aftermarket fitment this month.
It needs a £150 GPS module, called a GeoLoc, that plugs into the tachograph head.
The system takes the vehicle's position once per kilometre or once per minute, and at every event such as operation of the tachograph's mode switch or the vehicle ignition.