e-Transport - Road transport documents & permits + CMR & TIR conventions
🎯 Learning objectives
Apply laws and regulations on transport documents and permits
- Identify and manage the driver's required personal documents, including Code 95 and professional-competence requirements, and the necessary vehicle and on-board documents correctly.
- Understand the four conditions a transport undertaking must meet: establishment, good repute, professional competence and financial standing.
- Determine the appropriate transport licence, whether national, Community, non-Community or CEMT, for the route.
- Interpret and apply European cabotage rules correctly, including limits, time frames and the cooling-off period.
- Know which specific certificates and quality standards apply to specialist transport, such as ATP for refrigerated transport, GMP for animal feed, ADR for dangerous goods and TAPA for secure transport.
Master the CMR Convention & consignment-note management
- Determine when the CMR Convention is mandatory for domestic and international road transport, including stages within multimodal and intermodal transport.
- Complete all mandatory, optional and additional fields of the paper and electronic CMR consignment note (e-CMR) correctly and fully.
- Formulate reservations correctly, both by the driver when accepting goods and by the consignee on delivery.
- Assess the obligations, liability and liability limits (expressed in SDR/STR) of the carrier and sender in the event of damage, loss or delay.
Understand the TIR procedure for international customs transit
- Understand the purpose and operation of the TIR system for transport beyond the EU's external borders.
- Know the conditions under which authorised transport can take place under a TIR carnet or e-TIR with customs sealing.
