September 29th 2013
Practical day between TachoWebGroup and European Commission – DG Move
As a result of the contructive and open dialogue between the policy makers of the European Commission (EC) and the TWG working group of ECR/Tispol, the EC requested the TWG to organise a 1 day training on roadside checks on social legislation for professional raod transport.
September 21st 2013
This year Euro Contrôle Route multilateral exchange in Poland was held in Opole between 2nd and 7th September 2012. Exchange was focused on weight checks - dynamic and stationary check methods using pre-selection and impact of overloaded vehicles on the degradation of road infrastructure
September 21st 2013
TWG provides 3 training courses on enforcement
TWG provides 3 training courses on enforcement of the Digital Tachograph and methods of fraud and manipulation detection.
At the request of the project management of CASH , TWG has trained a first group of control officers in the Baltic Sea region. On September 7th and 8th the first training took place in Tallinn (Estonia). Three members of TWG trained 19 control officers on several aspects in the complex field of the Digital Tachograph enforcement.
September 16th 2013
Benelux countries tackle tachograph fraud during control in Dudelange
As part of a four day training organized by Euro Contrôle Route (ECR), Luxemburg customs officers, supported by seven experts from the Belgian federal police and Dutch traffic inspectorate (ILen T), checked HGV’s at the busy border crossing with France in Dudelange.
September 13th 2013
Euro Contrôle Route and TISPOL continue to target digital tachograph fraud
For Euro Contrôle route and TISPOL the enforcement of driver’s hours rules and more particularly the digital tachograph has always been a staple of the cooperation.
A joint working group, the TWG group, brings together experts from the police and inspectorates to exchange information, train enforcement staff and raise awareness of the problem with both the industry and policy makers.
July 19th 2013
Czech-Slovenian-Hungarian joint action in Southwestern Hungary
As part of our yearly bilateral exchanges planned with the Czech colleagues we performed from the 27th to 29th June in Zala county a series of common roadside checks targeting mainly tachograph manipulations with the support of the local transport inspectorate as well as our manipulation expert.
July 18th 2013
Joint multilateral roadside check in the Czech Republic
27th – 31st May 2013
July 18th 2013
Multilateral Cross border check
6 countries (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia) have participated at
regional check organized for the 3rd year in a row in southwestern Hungary with the kind support of Zala county Transport Inspectorate and local police, customs.
July 15th 2013
Slovakian-Hungarian seminar on tachograph manipulations
On the invitation of the Slovak Labour Inspectorate the Hungarian Transport Authority with the kind support of Vas County Transport Inspectorate’s manipulation expert delivered in Malá Lucivna, Slovakia a 2 days training – 1st and 2nd June 2011 - on tachograph manipulations consisting of a theoretical and a practical block.
July 3rd 2013
Steering Committee ECR - Ostend
On June 20th and 21st the second and final Steering Committee under the Belgian presidency took place in Ostend.
The Belgian presidency oversaw quite a few important developments in the evolution of ECR, most notably perhaps the move towards an independent ECR by 2015.
July 3rd 2013
3 days concerted roadside action in Northeast Hungary
The next round of regional checks were carried out near Debrecen from the 12th to the 14th June. Hajdu Bihar county’s Transport Inspectorate was pleased to host the event, which has been planned to be a regular bilateral exchange with the Czech Republic, however despite the ongoing administrative and financial difficulties the Hungarian organizators were delighted to be able welcome the inspectors from Romania (ISCTR) and Slovakia (NIP) as well.
July 2nd 2013
Tuesday 18 June 2013: Euro Contrôle Route (ECR), the working group that represents European national transport inspection services and Ireland’s Road Safety Authority (RSA) have called on EU Member States to provide additional manpower to National Inspectorates and Police forces for road traffic enforcement of commercial operators (buses and goods vehicles).
The conference took place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, in Dublin, Ireland