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German Driver Card, front side (2007) German Driver Card, rear side. A digital tachograph system consists of a digital driver card, the tachograph head, and a sender unit mounted to the vehicle gearbox. The sender unit produces electronic pulses as the gearbox output shaft turns. These pulses are interpreted as speed data by the head.
A driver must carry the tachograph records with him for all days of the current week and the last day of the previous week that he drove. Companies must keep the records for 1 year. In Germany, § 16 of the work time regulations lengthens this time to 2 years if the records will be used as proof of work time. [citation needed]
A German identity card it is compulsory to possess but not carry for all German citizens aged 16 or older; a passport is can also be used in lieu of an identity card. While police officers and some other officials have a right to demand to see one of those documents, the law does not state that one is obliged to submit the document immediately.
The German National Identity Card is issued by the municipal registration office (Standesamt, Einwohnermeldeamt, or Bürgeramt) in the individual's district of residency. While it's not mandatory, German nationals living outside of Germany can also obtain the identity card through German embassies and consulates. To obtain or renew the card ...
The obligation of identification in Germany was introduced in 1938 by the Nazis for Jews and men of military age. Shortly after the start of World War II, it was extended to apply to all citizens over the age of 15. The identity card was known as Kennkarte. British citizens were obliged to carry identity cards between October 1939 and May 1943. [1]
The first step to a European driving licence was taken on 4 December 1980, when the Council of Ministers adopted Council Directive 80/1263/EEC on the introduction of a Community driving licence, which established a Community model national licence that guaranteed the mutual recognition by the Member States of national licences.
Germany includes diacritical marks in the letters of some codes, that is the letters Ä, [14] Ö, and Ü, [h] but not ẞ. [i] For a long time, German codes kept to the rule that a code with an umlaut would prohibit another code with the respective blank vowel, e.g. there could not be a district code FU as the code FÜ was already in use for ...
The proposed rule covers interstate carriers that currently use log books to record driver's hours of service. The proposal would affect more than 500,000 carriers in the United States [2] and carriers that currently use time cards would be exempt.