A. It’s the responsibility of the fleet and the driver to make sure that all of the record of duty status (RODS) information required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA), including hours of service (HOS) data, is available for review during a roadside inspection. In the case that a driver uses multiple, incompatible ELDs — e.g., the data file from one system cannot be uploaded into another — the driver must either manually enter the missing duty status information into the system he or she is currently using or provide a printout from the other system, allowing for an accurate accounting of the duty status of the current and previous seven days to presented to the roadside inspector.
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