blue estate:
if you don’t do a continuous hour then POA don’t count any way
No idea where you get that idea from, any POA counts as POA, and pushes the wtd period of 6 hours forward by that amount. So 20 mins on POA pushes your 6hr wtd by a further 20 mins.
For the original poster.
The trainer is right if your not careful it will reset your driving time. If you have had a break then using POA after is fine as it then pushes the hr rule forward by that amount of time. So if you must use it use the first amount of time as break to reset your driving time then switch to POA if they insist you use it. Otherwise just break as that doesn’t count towards your working time either.