MAHA UK and Encompass in tacho calibration team-up
Workshop equipment provider MAHA UK has joined forces with tachograph specialist Encompass to offer its customers smart tacho calibrations.
Since 2019, all new trucks have had to be fitted with a smart tachograph, which automatically records the vehicle’s location using GPS at the start and end of the daily working period, as well as every three hours of accumulated driving time – while retaining the basic principles of reducing driver tiredness, improving road users’ safety and ensuring fair competition.
MAHA UK offers a conventional tachograph calibration roller, via its brake tester, which is suitable for both analogue and digital calibrations; however, to ensure it is able to assist customers with smart tacho-graphs, it has forged a partnership with Encompass.
MAHA UK sells equipment which is Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) approved, that allows users to conduct a smart tacho-graph calibration on the Semmler sensor roller.
A VDO WorkshopTab 4.0 simplifies the process, so users can run a test, calibrate and configure the tachograph, without having to purchase additional equipment, like a handheld programmer.
MAHA UK sales manager, Nick Austin (pictured), said: “This option allows MAHA UK, in collaboration with Encompass, to be at the forefront of tachograph inspection and configuration, while it offers customers greater flexibility and minimises their costs.
“It is a great opportunity to work with Encompass, one of the approved DVSA support companies, offering an excellent service in the supply of components, customer support and training to this sector.”
Encompass director, Tony Ferrari, added: “Working with MAHA UK, a trusted forward-thinking and quality supplier to the market, has further enhanced customer choice on the road to the implementation of second version smart tachographs.”
While most tachograph tests have to be conducted on a high-speed roller, generating noise, emissions and debris, users that purchase a MAHA brake tester with a tachograph calibration roller built-in will no longer have to worry about those issues, says the company.
A ‘slow speed test’ will generate the results needed; therefore, the user will only need the vehicle ignition on, preventing excessive noise and fume pollution.
