{"id":163281,"date":"2026-09-12T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startruck.pl\/border-crossing-in-the-tachograph-when-recording-is-automatic-and-when-the-driver-does-it"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:27:26","slug":"border-crossing-in-the-tachograph-when-recording-is-automatic-and-when-the-driver-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startruck.pl\/en\/border-crossing-in-the-tachograph-when-recording-is-automatic-and-when-the-driver-does-it","title":{"rendered":"Border Crossing in the Tachograph: When Recording Is Automatic and When the Driver Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Border crossing recording in the tachograph occurs automatically only on second-generation devices\u2014Smart Tacho 2 (G2V2)\u2014equipped with a GNSS satellite module supporting the Galileo system. On all other tachographs (analog, digital G1, and first-generation smart tachographs G2V1), the driver is required to stop at the nearest available parking area immediately after crossing the border and enter the country symbol manually. According to current European Commission clarifications, even with Smart Tacho 2, the driver is obliged to visually verify the entry and manually enter the country if a satellite signal failure has occurred. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since February 2022, as part of the European Mobility Package, a strict requirement came into force: every crossing of an internal border between EU countries must be recorded in the tachograph memory and on the driver’s chip card (Article 34(7) of EU Regulation No. 165\/2014).<\/p>

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This requirement was not introduced arbitrarily. For enforcement authorities (Germany’s BALM, Poland’s ITD, France’s DREAL), border entries are the primary verification tool for: <\/p>