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What is the difference between Evaluation and Archiving?

Archiving

Current EU legislation on analogue tachographs requires operators to analyse a proportion of their charts and bring any faults and infringements to the driver's attention. This ensures that the provisions of both the Tachograph and Drivers Hours Regulations are complied with. The operator is also required to keep the charts for 12 months.

With digital tachographs, the requirement to analyse remains the same but in addition, the operator is required to download the vehicle unit (at least within every 56 days) and the driver card (at least within every 28 days) in order to ensure that the digital data is stored for 12 months with the digital signatures intact (this is a code within the data that shows it has not been tampered with). This whole process is called Archiving.

Archiving your data in TIS-Web provides an easy to use and secure means of storing downloaded digital tachograph data. By keeping the archived data separate from the data used for evaluation purposes the integrity of the original data can be assured.

Should you need to retrieve your original digital tachograph data the TIS-Web archive contains features that allow you to copy the data back to your local PC at any time.

Evaluation

Evaluation is the data management part of TIS-Web which processes digital data from a driver card and Downloadkey and analogue data from tachograph charts, either manually or using an appropriate chart reader, to create a full record of the driver’s activities. This data can then be used to obtain driver reports that show driver infringements, Working Time Directive and other driver activities and also vehicle reports that can be used to manage your fleet effectively.