TruckerTimer vs TachoClear

Truck drivers: save yourself a fine and maximise your driving hours with this advanced tachograph and driving log. TruckerTimer is designed specifically for truck, lorry and HGV drivers in the UK and Europe to help you track your driving hours and alert you to impending fatigue violations. TruckerTimer is designed to keep you legal within the many complex rules of the EU driver's hours regulations. Features: * Supports EU heavy vehicle fatigue regulations * Includes timers for WTD regulations * Rules are suitable for coach drivers also * Graphical countdown for each rule, showing how long you have left * Automatically switch between driving and other work based upon GPS movement * Implements advanced rules: split breaks, 10-hour days twice per week, 15 hour spread and more * Allows manual adjustment of logs in case you forget to switch to rest or driving mode at any time * Gives daily and weekly summaries of all driving activity, able to be offset to match your shift start time. * Ability to set a 15, 30 or 45 minute alarm for short breaks TruckerTimer has seen extensive testing, both in the field and with over 100 synthetic driving logs to ensure that regulations are correctly implemented. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. GPS use is optional and can be controlled within the application settings. iOS6 users: You will prompted to download an older version. This is currently identical to the most recent version except for updates to the iOS7 style. Updating to iOS7 is recommended to get the quickest updates in the cuture.

How long can you keep driving today? When is your break due — and what does tonight's rest have to be? TachoClear answers, and shows you the rule that says so. Built for UK lorry, van and coach drivers under the assimilated (EU-derived) drivers' hours rules and the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005, with GB domestic goods and PSV night-work settings. Unsupported rule combinations are identified explicitly. Made for drivers with no transport manager watching their back — agency drivers and new passes especially. NEW TO TACHOGRAPHS? Tell TachoClear what you drive and when your first shift starts, and it starts straight away — or reminds you once if you start later. A sample day shows a real shift with one thing wrong in it, and the rule that says so. DRIVING A VAN TO EUROPE? Since 1 July 2026, vans over 2.5 tonnes carrying goods on international or cabotage journeys can come under the same EU-style rules as lorries. The van check asks three questions — weight, route and whose goods — and tells you which rules cover your work, with a plain-English guide to the exemptions. YOUR FIRST FIVE SHIFTS ARE FREE Record five complete solo shifts, each with its summary and next available start, with Planner and Week open throughout. No time limit. Every saved shift stays readable and correctable afterwards. WHAT IT DOES • Live shift tracking — one tap to switch between driving, other work, POA, break and rest • Drive Detection — optional automatic driving/work switching while the app is open; off by default, and a wrong switch is corrected in two taps • Break countdowns — the 4.5-hour driving clock and the separate working-time break rules, clearly labelled • Split breaks done right — 15 then 30, and it tells you when a split won't qualify • Daily rest options — 11h, reduced 9h (your remaining budget shown) or 3+9 split, each with its consequences • Weekly rest — the six-day deadline, reduced rest and the compensation payback deadline • Working Time — the 60-hour week cap, your average against the 48-hour limit, night-work rules, POA correctly excluded • Forward planner — "if I start at 06:00…" gives latest break, latest finish, earliest next start • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — your next deadline, plus Driving, Break and Other work buttons; widgets too • Break-complete alert — take your 45, and the app tells you when it counts • Fix anything — every entry can be edited, split or corrected, with undo • Driver CPC hours — log your periodic training and track your 35 hours against your card's expiry • Plain-English rules library — split breaks, POA, multi-manning, ferries, vans to Europe and more, with sources and worked examples • PDF and CSV export of your log (Pro) FREE TO START, PRO FOR ONGOING USE TachoClear Pro is a one-off lifetime unlock for unlimited shifts and history, ongoing Planner and Week use, PDF and CSV export, multi-manning, the full manual-entry practice library and Apple Watch. Nothing is bought unless you choose to unlock Pro. Family Sharing is enabled. Customers who bought the earlier paid version get Pro automatically once Apple verifies that purchase. No subscription. No ads. No account. Your driver record stays on your iPhone. Restoring it to a new phone from an iCloud or computer backup has not been verified, so export PDF or CSV before replacing the phone. Pseudonymous product analytics, crash reports and privacy-preserving advertising measurement are on by default, can be switched off in Settings and never include your hours, dates, GPS location, motion, notes or exports; providers may derive a coarse region from network data and receive the purchased product, price and currency. Shift tracking, saved records and the rules guide work offline. IMPORTANT TachoClear is a planning aid, not the legal record — your tachograph is. It is not legal advice. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government body. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.