A report adopted by the Transport Committee at the European Parliament stressed that improvements to on-board recording equipment (digital tachographs) should make life easier in future for truck drivers and haulage companies that obey EU rules on driving and rest times. In addition the responsible for the report, MEP Silvia Ticau says that "smart" tachographs connected to global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) should be compulsory in all heavy goods vehicles by 2020.

MEPs adopted a report in Transport Committee that highlights that improvements on-board recording equipment (digital tachographs) have to make life easier to truck drivers and haulage companies. In addition, they should also make it much easier for properly trained and equipped officers to detect and punish fraud and tampering.

The Commission proposed in July 2011 to update the "spy-in-the-cab" rules with new technical standards for digital tachographs. MEP Silvia Ticau, who is steering the legislation through Parliament, underlines that "smart" tachographs connected to global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) should be compulsory in all new heavy goods vehicles by 2020 as they offer new opportunities for integration with other intelligent transport system applications and allow the wireless transfer of data. Moreover, traffic authorities could run remote checks without stopping the vehicles and target only vehicles with "bad records" for in-depth road-side inspections.

On the other hand, the report asks the Commission to draw up a common list of offences to be deemed "very serious" in all Member States and punished accordingly, to ensure that driving and rest periods are respected uniformly. Furthermore, according to the report, the Commission has to ensure that the same method is used across the EU to analyse the data, while Member States would have to provide training and the necessary equipment for rapid downloading and analysis of tachograph data for their controlling agents.