Downloading the driver card (USB)

You download the driver card using a CCID-standard USB card reader connected to your phone. (For the required hardware, see the What you need page.) All data on the driver card is downloaded; there is no way to specify a period. The driver card's storage capacity is finite, so after a while new data overwrites the old. Depending on the intensity of use, it can store 2-12 months of data.

Step by step

On the main screen, select Download driver card, and within it the Via USB connector card reader option.

The reader screen guides you through the following states:

  1. Connect usb card reader! — plug the USB card reader into your phone (use a USB adapter if needed).
  2. Enable using usb device! — when Android requests permission for the connected device, grant it. This prompt also confirms that the phone has detected the card reader.
  3. Insert driver card into card reader! — insert the driver card, making sure the card is not inserted the wrong way round.
  4. Reading … — reading starts automatically, with a progress indicator.
  5. You can remove card from reader! — done; the data has been saved to the Archive, and the list of available reports appears immediately. If automatic email sending after download is enabled, the list of available reports does not appear.

If the driver card was already in the card reader when you started, the process begins immediately with the Reading ... state.

If you get an error during reading: first read the Troubleshooting page. If you cannot find a solution to the problem there, use the Send log file function, which you will find in the main screen menu.

Reading-related settings

There are several settings related to card reading; you will find the details in Settings.

  • File name format
  • Card compatibility level
  • Card timestamping
  • Fast card reading
  • Starting if card reader detectable

Card generation and file size. Downloading a first-generation driver card (G1) produces a file of ~16kB, an older second-generation driver card (G2v1) ~67kB, and a latest-generation driver card (G2v2) ~123kB.

What can be read?

Downloading the card does not fundamentally change the card's data content, so it can be repeated several times in a row. After the download, the time of the download is written back to the driver card. It follows that the resulting file does not contain the time of the download.

The downloaded file contains different types of data (driver activities, card insertions/withdrawals, start/end of work periods with country code, ...). The driver card has a separately allocated amount of storage for each of these data types. It can therefore happen that several months of driver activities fit on the card, but only 3 weeks of border crossings. That is why we recommend downloading the card more often than the prescribed 28 days.

The driver card does not store speed data or speeding information. These can only be obtained by downloading the tachograph data. Nor does the driver card contain the route of the vehicle driven; it only stores GPS coordinates at certain specific points (start/end of work period, border crossing, loading, ...).