California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 2 - Department of the California Highway Patrol › Chapter 6.5 - Motor Carrier Safety › Article 3 - General Driving Requirements › Section 1213.2 - Automatic on-Board Recording Device

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Automatic On-Board Recording Device. For
				  the purposes of this section, an automatic on-board recording device is an
				  electric, electronic, electromechanical, or mechanical device capable of
				  recording driver's duty status information accurately and
				  automatically.
(b) Minimum
				  Information Requirements. The device must be installed to record specific
				  operations of the vehicle in which it is installed. As a minimum, the device
				  must record engine use, road speed, miles driven, the date, and time of
				  day.
(c) Display Requirements.
				  Automatic on-board recording devices shall produce, upon demand, an electronic
				  display or printout of a driver's hours of service showing the time, sequence,
				  and location of duty status changes including the driver's starting time at the
				  beginning of each day.
(d)
				  Handwritten Records. Upon the request of any authorized employee of the
				  department, or any regularly employed and salaried police officer or deputy
				  sheriff, drivers using an automatic on-board recording device shall produce a
				  handwritten driver's record of duty status based upon the information stored in
				  the device, relating to the current day and the preceding seven days.
(e) Support Systems. Support systems used in
				  conjunction with on-board recorders at the driver's terminal or the motor
				  carrier's principal place of business must be capable of providing authorized
				  employees of the department, or any regularly employed and salaried police
				  officer or deputy sheriff, with an individual driver's hours of service
				  records. The support systems must also provide information concerning on-board
				  system failures and identification of edited data.
(f) Previous Seven Days. Each driver shall
				  have in his/her possession records of duty status for the previous seven
				  consecutive days. These records shall consist of information stored in and
				  retrievable from the automatic on-board recording device, handwritten records,
				  computer generated records, or any combination thereof.
(g) Driver's Certification. All hard (paper)
				  copies of the driver's record of duty status shall be signed by the driver. The
				  driver's signature certifies that the information contained thereon is true and
				  correct.
(h) Duty Status. The duty
				  status and additional information required in section
				  1213(c) shall be
				  recorded using the wording required by section
				  1213(c), an
				  abbreviated form of the word, or an identifiable code or character.
(i) Required Documents. Each driver shall
				  have in his/her possession and make available upon request of any authorized
				  employee of the department, or any regularly employed and salaried police
				  officer or deputy sheriff, instructions describing the data that may be
				  retrieved, a list of function codes, geographic location codes, and blank
				  driver's record of duty status graph-grids.
(j) Inoperative Device. When the automatic
				  on-board recording device is inoperative or the driver is unable to retrieve
				  the required information from the device, each driver shall reconstruct the
				  records of duty status for the current and the prior seven days and continue to
				  prepare a handwritten record of duty status until the automatic on-board
				  recording device is fully operational.
(k) Multiple Drivers. When more than one
				  driver is using the automatic on-board recording device, the device must be
				  capable of recording separately each driver's duty status and shall record the
				  sequential changes in duty status and times when the changes occurred for each
				  driver.
(l) Display Capabilities.
				  Automatic on-board recording devices with electronic displays shall have the
				  capability of displaying the following:
(1)
				  Driver's total hours of driving.
(2) Total hours on duty today.
(3) Total miles driven today.
(4) The sequential changes in duty status,
				  and the times and locations where changes occurred for each
				  driver.