• If you employ drivers from non-EU countries, you must apply for a driver attestation for them.
  • Drivers of certain vehicles have to have their driving and rest times monitored; a driver card is required for the digital tachograph.

    In all newly registered commercial vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of more than 3.5 tonnes and buses with more than nine seats, digital tachographs are mandatory as a replacement for manual tachographs. These devices are necessary for recording, saving, displaying, printing and outputting the driver's activity-related data.
  • In order to protect road users, the legislature has stipulated that seat belts must be worn while driving.

    However, there is the possibility of being exempted from this obligation upon request.
  • The driver card is issued for the digital control device for monitoring driving and rest times.

    Since the driver card is only issued for a limited period of 5 years, it must be re-applied for in good time. A new driver card will then be issued.

  • Authorized persons are tradesmen and private persons who have to drive a truck over 7.5 t gross vehicle weight or a truck under 7.5 t with trailer on a Sunday or public holiday due to a justified individual case.

    Reasons for these journeys could be, for example, the following: tournament participation, trade fair stand operators, events, deadline-related goods in encounter traffic. We reserve the right to examine each case on a case-by-case basis.

  • On the basis of a medical certificate or a medical certificate, you can be exempted from wearing a helmet or from the obligation to wear a seat belt with this exemption. Furthermore, you can be exempted from the obligation to wear a seat belt if your height is less than 150 cm.

  • In order to protect road users, the legislator and legislator has prescribed that seat belts must be worn while driving and that protective helmets must be worn when driving motorcycles.

    However, it is possible to be exempted from this obligation upon request. The resulting significant security risk shall be borne by the applicant.

    An exemption from the obligation to wear seat belts is possible,

    • if it is not possible to wear seat belts for health reasons.
    • if the applicant's height is less than 150 cm.

    An exemption from the helmet wearing obligation is possible,

    • if it is not possible to wear a safety helmet for health reasons.

  • The road traffic authorities may, under certain conditions, exempt road users from the general traffic rules of the Road Traffic Regulations and the special traffic rules of signage and marking by granting an exemption.

  • Under what circumstances can you obtain an exemption from the ban on lorries driving on Sundays?
  • Commercial drivers have to record their driving and rest times. The company needs company cards to read this data.

    It is issued directly in the name of the company; several such cards per company are possible. If sole proprietorships have driver cards to record driving and rest times, they too need a company card.