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The device that records drivers' data on heavy vehicles has been approved for use: "incriminating the driver"

The digital tachograph enables more accurate tracking, monitoring and supervision of the working and rest hours of truck and bus drivers.

It will replace the analog one, which breaks into fakes and leads to long driving hours and sometimes accidents.

Transport bodies warn: they are responsible for the drivers

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Monday, 04 January 2021, 23:05

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The Knesset's Economics Committee today (Monday) approved the regulations that will put the digital tachograph in use in trucks and buses.

The digital tachograph is a device that significantly improves the ability to track drivers' working hours, and its data is stored for longer periods of time.

It also allows remote control and monitoring of each driver's working hours.

In recent years, all heavy vehicles have been manufactured when this system is installed in them, but this is dismantled with the arrival of the vehicles in Israel and in its place is installed the analog tachograph disc, which is more open to forgeries.

The ability to change the data leads some drivers to particularly long driving hours, which sometimes cause road accidents.

Heavy vehicles in Israel make up only about 5% of all state vehicles, but their involvement rate in accidents is 37%.

The committee convened for a re-discussion of the regulations, after last week the committee's chairman, Yaakov Margi (Shas), refused to approve them.

This is in light of negligent gaps in regulations and the ability to properly enforce them by the police as presented by the Ministry of Transport.

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Despite the approval of the regulations, their entry into force will take place only in six months (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The gaps concerned the inability of the police to demand the presentation of the tachographs without a warrant, the rate of installation of the tachograph in vehicles (the new ones will be charged for installation, and the older ones will be the gradual transition - KK) In practice, it can only take place in about six months, with Israel joining the European Convention on Drivers' Hours of Employment.

Transport Minister Miri Regev welcomed the approval of the regulations and said that And will increase the safety of all road users. "The

organization of bus drivers from the Histadrut welcomed the approval and said that" this is a historic day.

These are regulations that save a real life and will put an end to the many hours that drivers drive on the road.

The State of Israel is moving forward to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers.

This is another very significant step in promoting and improving the professional status of bus drivers in Israel. "

Believes the digital tachograph is not enough and the regulations need to be amended.

Gabi Ben Harush (Photo: Liat Mendel)

On the other hand, there are quite a few professional bodies that have indicated that the approved regulations are far from providing a solution, as they treat the symptoms and not the real problem that the heavy vehicle market suffers from.

The chairman of the Board of Governors, Gabi Ben Harush, explains that as long as the regulation regarding drivers' working hours and rest hours is not addressed, Regulation 168, surveillance using the digital tachograph will not contribute to safety. "The digital tachograph is a computer disk in the truck and bus.

There are bus drivers who work one shift and move to another company to work a second shift, so how can this be monitored? ", Says Ben Harush.

He adds that" the Ministry of Transportation asks not to condition the tachograph on the amendment of Regulation 168 "This regulation is not clear. We are in the courts every day because of this, I have been with the Ministry of Transportation for almost 20 years and they say they will come up with a regulation amendment."

"The regulations need to be clear."

Road accident between a truck and a private car on Road 91 (Photo: Police Spokeswoman)

Another problem facing drivers, which is only expected to worsen with the entry of the tachograph, is the issue of rest areas.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions. So beauty, we brought the technology, the tachograph is alive, existing and breathing, but how do we implement it?", Asks Ben Harush.

"He signals for the driver to stop, but where does he stop? We do not want to be criminals, do not want to incriminate the drivers or the companies, but the installation needs to be clear."

The CEO of the Leaders' Council, David Kochba, also joined the request to condition the entry of the digital tachograph on the moves of updating the working hours and rest hours of drivers and building parking and rest areas. "If the committee can procedurally condition the entry of the digital tachograph I support this, of course, and even ardent supporters, "says Kochba." I attach to this the request for a significant statement by the committee that the State of Israel will promote parking and rest areas - there is not a single parking area in the country! "

Tam Promovich, head of the workers' power organization The digital that points the finger of blame and the enforcement tool towards the drivers themselves. "The Economics Committee in collaboration with the Histadrut sold the drivers here in exchange for the title," he says.

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"Regulation 168, which deals with the law of souls, is vague and open to interpretation and for some reason they chose to ignore it and postpone the hearing after the election. From the current wording it is not at all clear whether the break to which drivers are entitled - half an hour . "Is it possible to 'break down' the half hour into ten minutes separately? The result is that the drivers are not fresh, unfocused and endanger their lives and the lives of the passengers and eventually just leave the industry."

The reasons for the disregard and the lack of motivation to change the installation depend on Promovich's financial interests. "The Ministry of Transportation noted at the hearing that the reason for not clarifying the regulation is a financial question. That is, the state is winking at private transport companies, who probably only care about their profits, and do not take responsibility for human lives - of drivers and passengers alike. About the drivers and the removal of responsibility on the part of the employers, "he concludes.

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