Drivers' hours
Driving and rest time,
straight from the tachograph
See how much driving time each driver has left before a break, today and this week, without phoning them. Zendera reads it from the tachograph and shows it next to your drivers, with a warning when someone is close to a limit.
Hi there,
"Can she still take one more run before her break?" Until now the answer was on the tachograph in the truck. With Drivers' hours, it is on your screen.
Drivers' hours reads the tachograph through a telematics unit in the vehicle that sends its data to Zendera. Today that is care4all units. Without that data there is nothing to show.
It is not on by default. If your vehicles have connected tachographs, ask us and we'll check your data and turn it on.
1 · Drivers page
Everyone's hours in one list
Open Drivers and switch from Roster to Operations. The list gets five new columns: Hours status, Before break, Today, Week and Conf. (how fresh the data is). Drivers with the least time left come first.
What the driver is doing now, such as Driving · break in 0h25, Resting · fresh or Available (POA), with a bar showing how much time is left.
A chip counts the drivers who need attention. Tick At-risk only to see just them.
A driver needs attention when they are driving with less than 15 minutes before a break or 30 minutes left for the day, when their card expires within 15 days, or when they are driving without a valid card.
2 · One driver
The full picture for a driver
Click a driver with tachograph data and their page opens on the Drivers' hours tab. Driver details is the tab next to it.
An illustration with made-up figures. The limits are the EU driving-time rules.
A 24-hour timeline of drive, work, available and rest.
Driving time used and left against each limit: continuous, daily, weekly and over two weeks, plus break credit, when daily rest is due, and how many extended days and reduced rests are left.
Which card is in use, whether it is inserted, and a warning when it expires within 90 days.
The latest changes from the tachograph, including driving without a card.
Each driver shows how fresh the data is. Stale means Zendera hasn't heard from the tachograph for a while, so treat the numbers with care.
Some units only report what the driver is doing, not the time used. Zendera then shows the status but no figures, rather than guess.
3 · For administrators
Register each driver's card
The tachograph knows the card, not the person. Zendera finds the driver by the card registered on them, so a card has to be registered before that driver's hours show up.
Open the driver, go to Driver details and find Tachograph cards. Click Add card, enter the Card ID and Valid from. When a driver gets a new card, add it the same way: their current card ends on that date. You can also End, Edit or Delete a card.
Let Zendera suggest the match
You don't have to type every card. Under Settings → Organization → Tacho and vehicle data, the Not linked yet list shows the tacho cards and telematics devices that send data but aren't linked to a driver or vehicle. Where it can, Zendera suggests a match and says why, for example how many workdays a driver drove with that card.
Takes the suggestion. For a card, it registers the card on that driver.
Pick the right driver or vehicle yourself when there is no suggestion, or it is wrong.
Hides something you don't want linked, such as a card that doesn’t belong to one of your drivers.
The same page has the Vehicle data setting and Recent automatic changes, where you can undo anything Zendera linked or updated on its own.
Who can do this: administrators. With permission groups, cards need Drivers & workdays at Full, and the settings page needs Organization settings and Fleet at Full.
Got connected tachographs?
Ask us to turn on Drivers' hours for your organization. Once it is on, register your drivers' cards and switch the Drivers page to Operations.