Fuel shortage: exemptions on heavy vehicle traffic extended
Faced with the difficulties of the strike in France, European road carriers are indispensable: to facilitate fuel deliveries and our supplies, France have extended the exceptional measures allowing them to circulate more weekend and in the coming days. The government renews the traffic authorization for trucks over 7.5 t transporting hydrocarbons, from October 14 to…
Agnieszka Martinez
Roadside checks in Sweden. Ban to take a regular weekly rest in the cabin of the vehicle
As an employer of the transport company, your driver has been stopped and checked in Sweden for regular weekly rest time? The Swedish authority doesn’t accept the proofs of taking weekly rest time in a private home. The transport company was fined for not compliance with the Article 8. 8 of the Regulation EC 561/…
Obligatory return of the vehicle
European Commission has revised its guidelines on the obligatory return of the vehicle Obligatory return of the vehicle each eight weeks to one of the operational centres in the Member State of establishment has entered into force on 21 February 2022. In order to secure harmonised understanding and enforcement of this obligation, the European Commission…
Margareta Przybyla
ERRU: Enforcement of road transport rules in the EU
In order to secure effective enforcement of rules within the road transport of goods, there is a need for common rules as well as exchange of information on road transport operators between competent authorities from all Member States. In the EU, exchange of information is possible via the European Registers of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU),…
Posting of drivers to UK – what rules apply?
Posting of drivers to UK Posting of drivers to UK raises still a lot of questions as UK is neither Member of the EU nor an ordinary third country. Its relations with the EU are governed by the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which to a wide extend regulates road transport between these two…
First online inspections via IMI
First online inspections via the IMI system Attention! The first online inspections of European transport companies are performed via the new EU common system (IMI) by the National Authorities of EU Member States. Typically, the online request requires to provide several types of documents that can refer to transport operations that took place for the…
Martyna VALUZYTE
Obligation to keep A1 form in the vehicle
Obligation to keep A1 form in the vehicle Are drivers obliged to keep A1 forms in the cabin of their vehicles while carrying out international transport operations? This question has been asked repetitively, especially by transport operators who send their drivers to France and Austria, but checks are also carried out in Germany and Italy….
Missing record sheets = One single penalty
Application of the Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs in road transport sector As a general rule, transport operators are subject to obligation to produce the record sheets relating to the period covering the current day and the previous 28 days as provided in Article 36 of the Regulation (EU) No. 165/2014. In accordance…
Posting of drivers via temporary
The scope of the lex specialis Directive covers drivers that are posted on the territory of EU Member States directly via transport operators that provide transport services to another independent party. As a result, intragroup posting as well as posting of drivers via temporary work agencies are excluded from lex specialis and governed by the…
Road checks related to rest time in France
Road checks related to rest time in France Does your, as an employer of the transport company, driver have ever been stopped and checked in France for regular weekly rest time? And you have paid at least 750 euros as a “consignation “in France? By judgment of May 19, 2022, the French Police Court of…