What is FORS Tacho Service?
FORS is an international voluntary accreditation scheme that helps improve UK and Europe commercial operators’ performance. It provides a comprehensive accreditation process which covers aspects of safety, fuel efficiency, vehicle emissions and economical operations. The scheme can provide tools to help operators become more efficient, more environmentally protective and demonstrate ‘best practice’ to their customers.
FORS Tacho service is brought to you by TDi’s disc-check tachograph analysis. The FORS Tacho Service helps members fulfil the D7 requirement of recording working time and driver’s hours but can also help reduce infringement rates, and increase accuracy and streamline your reporting process.
Who is FORS Tacho Service for?
FORS Tacho Service offers a modern, efficient , easy to use tachograph analysis software for any operators who are members of FORS.
So if you have bronze, silver or gold status, FORS Tacho Service can fulfil the bronze requirement D7 (working time and drivers’ hours,) and give you a wealth of information about your vehicle and driver data, in a way that it easy to understand.
Benefits
What's included with FORS Tacho Service?
Simple, powerful dashboards help you stay compliant and help you understand your tachograph data better than ever before.
View an overview of your entire fleet and quickly see areas in need of attention, view infringement ratings, driver status & vehicle status clearly from a glance with our useful dashboards.
For more in-depth reporting, you can simply click through on the dashboard to get the data you need, when you need it, and view a whole range of reports, to help you get the most out of your tachograph analysis.
With FORS Tacho Service’s driver calendar screen, it’s never been easier to record your drivers work time directive.
We use the driver’s hours directly from the tacho data received, and make it easy to add manual entries such as statutory holidays, other holidays, sick days and training days.
Monitor your driver’s working time easily with our colour coded calendar, and view your driver’s holiday’s yearly totals too, so you can keep track of the 20 mandatory holidays per year.
With over 40 reports available to run whenever you need, FORS Tacho Service makes it easier than ever to get the in-depth information you want.
From sending infringement summaries to drivers, to checking the status’ of your driver’s and licences, and expiry dates. You can even log and check your driver’s CPC expiry dates!
Reporting in FORS Tacho Service has been taken one step further with scheduled reports. You can schedule reports straight to an inbox ready for when you need it, in just a couple of clicks. What’s more, is there is no limit on how many reports you can run.
Our disc-check driver’s app aids drivers in managing their hours and working time directive whilst they are on the road.
Available on iOS and Android devices, the app provides the drivers with a wealth of information, such as progress towards their legal limits, and view and acknowledge infringements on the go.
The driver’s app also allows drivers to upload their driver cards, and their data is instantly added to the FORS Tacho Service dashboard for analysis. What’s more, is the app is completely free of charge.
Improve and keep on top your driver infringement rates, with the help of our debrief feature within FORS Tacho Service
Debrief makes dealing with driver infringements easier with a configurable points system, which provides clear actions and corrective measures to take.
By using debrief, many of our customer have seen a reduction in repeat infringements from drivers, by being able spot repeat infringements easily and taking corrective measures quickly.
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With FORS Tacho Service, users can view drivers data within 15 minutes of accuracy.*
With our live driving time screen you can view all your drivers working time, from amount of time driven, to when their next breaks are due. You can even see which drivers are currently on break, all from a single screen.
The data is automatically updated every 15 minutes, so you can keep track of all your drivers on shift, in one place.
*Additional Hardware or TDi Remote needed*
What will it cost?
We offer discounts to FORS operators based on their membership status, with all features included, no hidden costs, or sign up fees. We’ll even analyse vehicle data for free!
Not just that, but if you don’t have any data, we won’t charge you, so you only have to pay for what you use.
You can get all this at a reduced cost:
- Bronze members – 75p per driver per week (25% off)
- Silver members – 70p per driver per week (30% off)
- Gold members – 65p per driver per week (35% off)
Still using analogue charts? No problem, we can analyse these for you and upload the data for £2.20 per analogue chart.
We will also give you a 2 month free trial, so you can see for yourself how your business will benefit from using FORS Tacho Service.