Remaining Driving Time (RDT)
Plan every journey with confidence
Every transport company faces the same challenge: keeping vehicles moving while remaining fully compliant with European driving and rest time legislation.
The Remaining Driving Time Parameter Group provides real-time insight into the driver’s remaining legal driving time, required breaks and mandatory rest periods.
By making this information available to planners, dispatchers and fleet management systems, transport companies can optimize planning, avoid unnecessary delays and reduce the risk of costly fines.
Simplifying Remaining Driving Time for Smarter Planning
Driving and rest time regulations are among the most complex rules in road transport.
Daily limits, weekly limits, mandatory breaks, compensation periods and reduced rest periods all influence whether a driver may continue driving.
The Remaining Driving Time Parameter Group continuously interprets this information directly from the tachograph and presents it in a simple, harmonised format that can immediately be used by planning and fleet management applications.
Specifications
Name: Remain Driving Time
Header: $RDT
Subscription: Yes
Solution: Compliance
Trigger: On Request
Output port: Selectable
Typical Applications
- Fleet Planning
- Dispatch optimization
- Route Planning
- Driver Scheduling
- Compliance Monitoring
- Fine Prevention
- Customer ETA Calculations
- Driver assistance
Key Parameters
- Tacho Work state
- Tacho Time states (0-15)
- Driver 1 ID
- Remaining Time Before the Next Brake
- Remaining Time Before the Next Drive Period
- Remaining Time Before the Next Drive Period
- Remaining Time Before the Next Weekly Rest Period
- Remaining Drive Time of the Current/Next period
- Remaining Drive Time of the Next Current Week
- Remaining Extended Driving Days
- Remaining Reduced Daily Rest Period
- Total Time of Current Work State
- Total Drive Time of the Current & previous Week
- Time the Next Brake Should Be
- Time the Next Daily Rest Period Should Be
- Time the Next Weekly Rest Period Should Be
- Duration Next Drive Period
- Open Compensation Time in the Previous week
- Open Compensation Time in the 2nd Previous week
- Open Compensation Time in the 3rd Previous week
- Cumulative Brake Time
- Cumulative Rest Time
- Maximum Daily Period
- Tacho Type
The complete parameter group and definition is available to Squarell partners.
Business Value
The Remaining Driving Time Parameter Group enables transport companies to make better operational decisions throughout the day.
Planners know exactly how much legal driving time remains, allowing routes to be adjusted before problems occur.
Drivers receive realistic schedules, dispatchers gain greater planning flexibility and fleet operators reduce the risk of costly infringements while improving vehicle utilisation.
Why Squarell?
Many fleets purchase a separate Remote Tachograph Download device in addition to their telematics system.
Squarell integrates tachograph functionality directly into the IVMS.
The Remaining Driving Time Parameter Group is one of three dedicated Tachograph Parameter Groups that together provide a complete tachograph solution, eliminating additional hardware while reducing installation costs and simplifying fleet management.
