Homer sits in the vehicle and sends your tachograph data home on its own. No driver involvement, no download key, no one walking round the yard on the last Friday of the month.
Almost nobody misses a tachograph download on purpose. They miss it because the vehicle was away, or the person who does it was off, or it simply came round again before anyone noticed.
That is the entire problem Homer solves. Downloads stop being a job somebody has to remember and become something that has already happened.
£3 per vehicle per week, plus 50p per week for the SIM — £3.50 per vehicle, per week, all in. Installation is not included. There is no extra licence fee for the data arriving in DDIR.
A missing download is not a filing problem. It is a gap in the evidence, and gaps are what examiners look for.
The legal minimums are driver cards at least every 28 days and vehicle units at least every 90. Miss them and two things follow. You cannot analyse what you never collected, so infringements in that period go unseen and unactioned. And when the DVSA asks for a period you cannot produce, the reasonable inference is not that the data was clean.
A driver card holds roughly 28 days of data before it starts writing over the oldest. Miss the window and that information is not late — it is gone.
That is why the deadline is unforgiving in a way most compliance deadlines are not. There is no catching up afterwards.
Homer is a small unit fitted to the vehicle, connected to the tachograph, with its own mobile SIM. On a schedule you set, it pulls the data and sends it straight into DDIR, where it is stored, analysed and available to produce.
Worth saying plainly, because a device that quietly does less than you assumed is worse than one you understood before you bought it.
It retries. A unit sitting in a steel-clad workshop, or parked overnight somewhere rural, will download when it next has coverage.
The schedule is deliberately set with margin, so a few missed attempts do not put you outside the legal window. This is the main practical question operators ask, and the honest answer is that occasional missed attempts are expected and designed around — not something you will be chasing.
At £3.50 per vehicle per week, Homer earns its place when downloading is genuinely costing you something. That usually means one of these:
If you run a handful of vehicles that come back to the same yard every night and one person has done the downloads reliably for years, you may not need it. We would rather say so than sell you something.
Homer turns tachograph downloading from a task somebody has to remember into a thing that has already happened. If you have ever discovered a gap after the fact, that is what you are buying.
Tell us how many vehicles and what they do, and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth it. If it is, we will sort the units, the SIMs and the fitting, and the data will start arriving in DDIR alongside everything else.
Already downloading manually and just want the analysis? That is our tachograph analysis service, and it works with data collected any way you like.
