CHAPTER VIUSE OF EQUIPMENT

Article 35Damaged driver cards and record sheets

1.

In the event of damage to a record sheet bearing recordings or to a driver card, drivers shall keep the damaged record sheet or driver card together with any spare record sheet used to replace it.

2.

Where a driver card is damaged, malfunctions, or is lost or stolen, the driver shall:

(a)

at the start of his journey, print out the details of the vehicle he is driving, and enter on that printout:

  1. (i)

    details that enable the driver to be identified (name, driver card or driving licence number), including his signature;

  2. (ii)

    the periods referred to in points (ii), (iii) and (iv) of Article 34(5)(b);

(b)

at the end of the journey, print out the information relating to periods of time recorded by the tachograph, record any periods of other work, availability and rest taken since the printout made at the start of the journey, where not recorded by the tachograph, and mark on that document details enabling the driver to be identified (name, driver card or driving licence number), including the driver’s signature.