Working 2 miles from vehicle, breaks?

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Hello people just a quick question.
I’m working at least two miles from where I can park my wagon ( delivering and operating access equipment) and to change my tacho to break and have a break is taking near 1.5 hours, is there any way round this?
Can you manually enter a break after you’ve had it? Or am I just going to have to take two long walks to have my break all week?
I’m new to tachos as the cherry pickers I’ve always drove don’t need a drivers card inserting.
Cheers.

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You cannot overwrite what’s been written to the driver card and VU, if you’re away from the vehicle all day I might be tempted to take the card out and do a manual entry when I return to the vehicle at the end of the day.

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tachograph:
You cannot overwrite what’s been written to the driver card and VU, if you’re away from the vehicle all day I might be tempted to take the card out and do a manual entry when I return to the vehicle at the end of the day.

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    Just park take your card out then on return put the card in and do manual entries for what you’ve been doing . Don’t forget your WTD breaks
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Thanks tachograph. the card out seems the way forward for me.
■■■■ I’d better read up on manual entries now.

And cheers nick2008 too, yeah its the wtd breaks I need to register I’m only doing an hour or two actual driving, the rest of my hours are operating.

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Is this WTD exempt as it is only using vehicle to take and then use plant :question:

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I’m afraid not rog, some days are just deliveries/collections, others are drive to site then operate.