Records of duty status required
 21. (1) An operator shall require every driver to fill out, and every driver shall fill out, a record of duty status that meets the requirements of this section and section 22 if, (a)  the driver is driving a commercial motor vehicle as set out in clauses 18 (6) (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g); or (b)  the ELD on the commercial motor vehicle the driver is driving is displaying a malfunction set out in Table 4 of Schedule 2 of the Technical Standard. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1, 3). (2) A driver shall, at the start of each day, enter the following information in the record of duty status: 1.  The driver’s name. 2.  The date. 3.  The name of the driver’s co-drivers, if any. 4.  The start time of the day being recorded, if the day does not start at midnight. 5.  The cycle that the driver is following. 6.  The odometer reading, at the start of the day, of the commercial motor vehicle to be operated by the driver. 7.  The number of hours of on-duty time and the number of hours of off-duty time that the driver accumulated each day during the 14 days immediately before the start of the day for which the driver was exempt from this Regulation and not required to keep a record of duty status, recorded in the record of duty status. 8.  The number plate of each commercial motor vehicle to be driven and each trailer to be drawn by the driver on the day. 9.  The name of the operator for whom the driver is to drive during the day. 10.  The addresses of the driver’s home terminal and of the principal place of business of the operator for whom the driver is to drive during the day. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1). (3) A record of duty status under this section must include a duty status graph grid that is in, (a)  the form titled “Duty Status Graph Grid” in English, dated 2021/07 and available on the website of the Government of Ontario Central Forms Repository; or (b)  the form titled “Grille d’activités” in French, dated 2021/07 and available on the website of the Government of Ontario Central Forms Repository. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1). (4) A driver shall, over the course of each day, enter the following information in the record of duty status: 1.  The start and end times for each duty status during the day. 2.  Each city, town, village or highway location and the province or state where the driver’s duty status changes. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1). (5) The information referred to in subsection (4) must be complete up to the time at which the last change of driver’s duty status occurred. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1). (6) A driver shall, at the end of each day, enter the following information in the record of duty status: 1.  The total time spent in each duty status during the day. 2.  The odometer reading at the end of the day. 3.  The total distance driven by the driver. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1). (7) A driver is not required to record the information described in paragraph 7 of subsection (2) for any day for which the driver carries copies of the records required to be kept by the operator under subsection 23 (3). O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1). (8) If the driver is on duty within a municipality such that a number of periods of driving time are interrupted by a number of periods of other on-duty time of less than one hour each, (a)  instead of recording the information described in paragraph 1 of subsection (4), the periods of driving time may be combined and the periods of other on-duty time may be combined; (b)  the driver is not required to record the information described in paragraph 2 of subsection (4) with respect to the periods that have been combined under clause (a); and (c)  the driver shall enter on the duty status graph grid the municipality in which he or she is on duty. O. Reg. 715/21, s. 11 (1).