Your card should have been removed or set to rest over the weekend if left in, if leaving in you also need to manually enter start / end country at the start / end of the shift. If you are doing work before or after you leave the truck you’ll need to remove the card and manually enter the time when you next insert your card.
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You can only make a manual entry for the time the card is out, you cannot change the data the tacho has recorded on the card. If a wrong mode has been recorded you need to do a printout with an explanation, correcting the mistake and sign is, then hand it into the office after 28 days.
You must have an accurate record of your work on your card. So you can’t start at 0500, but but get a truck till 0600 and just put your card in and off you go, you need to record say a couple of minutes talking to the office bod saying go wait for a truck, you’d then record the waiting time as break or poa till you got the truck or other work if they had you sweeping the yard!
There’s 2 parts to the wtd breaks.
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The 6 hour rule
you can’t work more than 6 hours at any point without a 15 min break, a break of 15 or more allows you to work upto another 6 hours before needing another 15 min break. This works the same as driving 4.5 hours and a 45. (Only driving and other work count as working time) -
The total break
This is dependent on the total amount of working time in the shift, only driving and other work count as working time for the wtd.
0-6 hours of working time = 0 break required
Over 6 but not over 9 = 30 mins of break/s
Over 9 = 45 mins of break/s required.
A shift can only be have 1 of the 3 apply, so ignore the other 2
Breaks can be taken anywhere in the shift to count towards the total required, except the very beginning or end of the shift, so each break must have at least 1 min of work either side of it and they must be at least 15 mins long to count.
The 6 - 9 and 9+ are purely used to determine how much break is required in total and are nothing to do with when any breaks are required.
So anyone who drives over 4.5 hours in a shift will have a 45 for that and tick the total break box for any shift, so all they’ll need to worry about is the 6 hour rule.
These are extreme examples
of what is legal
Work 6
Break 15
Work 6
Break 15
Work 2:14
Break 15
Work 1 min
Work 6
Break 25
Work 6
Break 20
Work 2:15
Work 2
Poa 11
Work 2