The carrier must keep the first and last documents for the day along with six others. If a driver submits fewer than eight documents, the carrier is required to keep all of them.
If a commercial driver has less than 8 documents that include all four of the necessary elements (name, date, location, and time), a document that has all the elements except “time” can be considered a supporting document.
Drivers using paper RODS (records of duty status) must keep toll receipts too, however they don’t count toward the eight-document cap. A reminder too that paper documents don’t need to be stored if they’ve been scanned and are available digitally.
Supporting documents can’t be limited to documents collected at the beginning and end of the workday. It’s an important part of enforcing the 60/70-hour rule. Supporting documents verify the proper duty statuses and help officials assess compliance.