Regulation 8 Manner of keeping driver’s record books – supplementary
Where a weekly record sheet has been completed by an employee-driver he shall deliver the driver’s record book (including the duplicate of the weekly record sheet which has been completed) to the employer who issued or should have issued the record book to him within a period of seven days from the date when the weekly record sheet was completed or earlier if so required by the employer.
An employer to whom a driver’s record book has been delivered pursuant to paragraph 1 above shall–
examine the weekly record sheet which has been completed and sign it and its duplicate;
detach the duplicate sheet; and
return the book to the driver before he is next on duty.
When all the weekly record sheets in a driver’s record book have been used, the driver shall retain the book for a period of fourteen days from the date on which the book was last returned to him pursuant to paragraph (2)(c) above and shall then return the book to the employer as soon as is reasonably practicable.
When a weekly record sheet has been completed by an owner-driver he shall, within a period of seven days from the date of its being completed, detach the duplicate sheet and deliver it to the address which is required to be entered in item 4 on the front sheet.
An employee-driver or an owner-driver shall not be treated as having failed to comply with any of the requirements of paragraphs (1) and (4) above with respect to the period within which the duplicate of a weekly record sheet shall be delivered if he can show that it was not reasonably practicable to comply with that requirement and that the duplicate of the weekly record sheet was delivered as soon as it was reasonably practicable to do so.
A driver who is in possession of a driver’s record book in which he has made any entry pursuant to regulation 7 shall not, until all the weekly record sheets in that book have been completed, make any entry in any other record book.
An employee-driver shall not make any entry in a driver’s record book pursuant to regulation 7 if the book was not supplied to him by his employer unless a driver’s record book so supplied was not available to him.
No person shall erase or obliterate any entry once made in a driver’s record book, and if a correction is required it shall be made by striking the original entry through in such a way that it may still be read and by writing the appropriate correction near to the entry so struck through, and any person making such a correction shall initial it.