Comparison — Tachogram facts as published 22 October 2026
TachoAssist is tachograph analysis for operators at £2.50 per driver analysed, and for drivers at £2.00 a month. It checks GB and EU rules in one workspace, its Card Reader is free and works with any standard USB reader, the free .DDD check needs no account, and drivers sign their debriefs on the phone in the Companion app.
Six reasons, and you can check every one of them yourself.
Price
TachoAssist Business is a fixed £2.50 for each driver analysed in the month, with vehicles and vehicle unit (VU) analysis included and no VAT charged. Tachogram’s pricing page shows Business at £4.00 per driver per month, with its pound prices described as approximate and payment taken in euros (as published on tachogram.com, 22 October 2026).
Hardware
The TachoAssist Card Reader is free on Windows and Android and saves a driver card to a .ddd file with any standard USB smart-card reader. Readers like that sell on Amazon UK for about £8 to £18. Tachogram sells its own card readers separately from the subscription (as published on tachogram.com, 22 October 2026); its reader was listed on Amazon UK at £24.99 on 21 October 2026.
Rules
EU and assimilated GB drivers’ hours, Working Time (WTD), the Mobility Package with border crossings, and the national fine catalogues of the UK and all 27 EU member states. Domestic and international work are checked in the same place. Tachogram’s pricing page lists “EU rule compliance & infringement analysis” (as published on tachogram.com, 22 October 2026).
Debriefs and inspections
Send a driver debrief in four clicks, with an instruction for each rule broken. The driver reads it, can explain what happened and signs with a finger in the Companion app. For an inspection, the evidence pack puts the original files with their checksums, the Infringement report with notes and the stored attestations into one ZIP.
Your drivers
Drivers open the Companion in their phone’s browser from an invitation link, with nothing to install. They upload their card files, see their own infringements with guidance and sign their debriefs; in UK and Irish workspaces they also send the daily walkaround check. It is included in the Business plan.
Trial and billing
The 14-day trial needs no payment card details and there is no minimum term. After it, you pay only for the drivers whose data you analyse that month: an agency driver who covers a fortnight in March is on the March bill, not on April’s.
You can set these aside when you compare. Tachogram’s side is as published on tachogram.com, 22 October 2026.
Three things are worth checking against the way your fleet works. Phones: Tachogram publishes apps on Google Play, the App Store and Huawei AppGallery; the TachoAssist Driver app is on Google Play, and the web app and the Companion run in the browser on any phone, iPhones included. Remote download: Tachogram names FTP, API and email import, integrations with the Volvo and Scania platforms, and remote-download partners; TachoAssist takes files by upload, one by one or in a ZIP, and through its API, so vehicle unit data still comes from your download key or remote-download service. Analogue charts: digital cards and vehicle units do not need them, and TachoAssist does not analyse analogue charts. The Tachogram facts in this paragraph are as published on tachogram.com, 22 October 2026.
On the business prices each company published on 22 October 2026.
Tachogram published price
Ten drivers at £4.00 per driver per month. Tachogram describes its pound figures as approximate and charges in euros, so what you pay moves with the exchange rate. It offers volume discounts from 10 units on request.
TachoAssist Business
Ten drivers analysed at £2.50 each. Vehicles and vehicle unit analysis are included. No VAT is charged on TachoAssist prices.
Read it carefully
A negotiated volume discount, VAT and the exchange rate can all change the Tachogram figure, and the two products have different features. Treat this as an approximate comparison and confirm both current prices before deciding.
Every Tachogram fact on this page is taken from tachogram.com as published on 22 October 2026, except the price of its reader on Amazon UK, checked on 21 October 2026. We do not speak for Tachogram, and its offer may have changed since, so please check their current pricing directly. TachoAssist supports compliance work and is not legal advice or a definitive statement of compliance.
Questions
On the prices each company published, yes. Tachogram shows Business at £4.00 per driver per month and Driver at £2.65 to £3.50 a month depending on the billing period, with its pound figures described as approximate and payment taken in euros (as published on tachogram.com, 22 October 2026). TachoAssist Business is £2.50 per driver analysed per month, and TachoAssist Driver £2.00 a month after the 14-day trial. Prices change, so check Tachogram’s pricing page before you decide.
Not from us. To read a driver card yourself you need a standard USB smart-card reader, and any one will do: they sell on Amazon UK for about £8 to £18. The TachoAssist Card Reader software is free on Windows and Android and saves the card to a .ddd file. Files you have already downloaded can be uploaded as they are, and vehicle unit files still come from your download key or remote-download service.
TachoAssist checks the assimilated GB rules (the EU drivers’ hours rules as they apply in Great Britain), Working Time (WTD) and the Mobility Package, with the national fine catalogues of the UK and all 27 EU member states. The separate GB domestic hours rules of the Transport Act 1968, for vehicles outside the EU rules, are not checked. The rules follow your operating context, and every infringement still needs checking.
Yes. The 14-day trial needs no payment card details, and there is no minimum term. When you subscribe to Business you add a card once, checkout shows £0.00 due that day, and from then on you pay £2.50 for each driver analysed in the month. To see a file before you register, the free .DDD check shows the last 28 days of a driver card file without an account.