The recording of the working time of the driver as the element of security of European Registers of Road Transport

Tachograph belongs to On Board Recording Devices. It was initially introduced for the railroads in order to companies could better document irregularities. The inventor of the tachograph was Max Maria von Weber, an administrative official, engineer and author. The Hasler Event Recorder was introduced in the 1920s. Regrettably, the construction of analogue tachograph, an original type of tachograph used in road transport, encouraged to numerous frauds and counterfeits of social rules for drivers. Secure digital tachograph system is indisputably a means having the great influence on road safety, enforcement of the social conditions for drivers in road transport as well as supporting the fair competition between road transport undertakings. In order to better monitor the compliance of road transport with the rules in force, inter alia the provisions on usage the digital tachographs, the European Union regulation introduces the European Registers of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU), a system that allows a better exchange of information between Member States.

W artykule przedstawiono tematykę cyfrowych urządzeń rejestrujących przeznaczonych do rejestrowania czasu pracy kierowców w aspekcie wdrożenia w Unii Europejskiej systemu tzw. dobrej reputacji. Ponadto w artykule zaprezentowano elementy bezpieczeństwa tego systemu w aspekcie innych uczestników ruchu drogowego i ich bezpieczeństwa na drodze.