Regulation 11 Preservation of driver’s record books

An owner-driver shall preserve his driver’s record book intact when it has been completed or he has ceased to use it, and the employer of an employee-driver to whom any driver’s record book relating to that employee-driver has been returned shall preserve that book intact, for the period specified in paragraph (3) below.

An employer of an employee-driver or an owner-driver who has detached duplicates of weekly sheets pursuant to regulation 8(2)(b) or as the case may be regulation 8(4) shall preserve those sheets for the period specified in paragraph (3) below.

The period for which driver’s record books and duplicates of weekly record sheets must be preserved as required by this regulation shall be one year reckoned, in the case of an owner-driver, from the day on which that book was completed or ceased to be used by him, or in the case of an employee-driver, from the day on which that book was returned to his employer pursuant to regulation 8(3).