the maoster:
When mine goes in for its six weekly I drive it to the garage and eject the card. Why wouldn’t I as I know a fitter will be moving it for a break test and if someone wanted to be picky them driving it with my card in would be a false record.When the inspection is over I put the card back in and do a manual entry for break because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing in the interim l
Exactly this.
You should always take your card out as someone else is going to be driving it, you are sat watching TV or playing on your phone, so that’s break which you manually enter when you put your card back in. Or poa if you get all recorded breaks deducted
Being free to dispose of your time as you wish is a requirement of rest, not break, you have daily / weekly rest, and breaks from driving or for WTD in the shift, same symbol different activities with different criteria.
Every clued up TM should tell you this is the only way to do it