The Spanish Transport Ministry's penalty scale, updated on 5 October, sets fines of €401 to €18,000 for shippers who fail to itemise diesel price changes on the invoice, under Real Decreto-ley 9/2026. Anyone invoicing transport to or from Spain, including cabotage from Portugal, should require that breakdown.
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Spain''s Ministry of Transport acknowledges IT failures in the DeCA and electronic waybill (HeRU) repository and instructs the regional governments to drop fines from that period issued only because drivers could not technically download or check the document. Anyone fined should check whether their case fits before paying.
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The Irish presidency of the EU Council proposes, in the 2028-2034 financial framework, a Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) transport envelope around €5bn below the Commission's proposal. IRU warns the funding is already insufficient for current demand — including the cross-border corridors and secure parking used by hauliers leaving the Iberian Peninsula.
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The Spanish Congress ratified, on 16 October, the decree-law extending the professional diesel rebate and the general fuel discount to 31 December 2026, with amounts rising month by month. It applies to anyone fuelling up in Spain, including foreign hauliers on international operations.
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IRU is pushing for a 30-calendar-day cap on paying for any road transport service, with no exceptions and no longer negotiated terms — but the EU proposal that would set that cap has been stuck in the Council since 2024. In Spain, where the legal cap is already 60 days, Fenadismer's observatory shows a 52-day average wait and 38% of clients paying late in August.
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The Italian Council of Ministers approved, in preliminary review on 13 October, a new Highway Code that raises from 68 to 70 the age limit for professional driving with group 2 licences (C1, C, D and variants), with a two-yearly medical check. The text still needs to pass the Council of State, the Conferenza unificata and parliamentary committees; it is not expected to take effect before early 2027.
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The Spanish federation has set up a confidential channel for hauliers to report shippers who refuse to apply the mandatory transport-price review when diesel goes up — a duty under Royal Decree-Law 9/2026, which voided any contract clause saying otherwise. Fenadismer says diesel has risen 44% for heavy vehicles in eight months without that review reaching the invoice.
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Four days after Spain''s electronic transport document became mandatory, Fenadismer reports QR reading failures on the road, CETM accuses some shippers of passing the bill to hauliers, and FVET asks the Ministry for a period without fines. For hauliers doing cabotage from Portugal, the obligation stands — only enforcement is still settling in.
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Viapass has published the Belgian toll rates for heavy goods vehicles that take effect on 1 January 2027. A Euro 6 over 32 tonnes pays 1.2 cents more per kilometre in Flanders and 0.7 cents more in Wallonia. Brussels keeps its rates. Electric trucks lose part of their discount, and the Dutch NEDLINQ unit is not accepted in Belgium.
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In judgment C-437/25, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that a very high fine, which neither the authority nor the court can reduce, breaches the principle of proportionality. But using another person's card remains one of the most serious infringements: having done so for a short time does not reduce the fine. Negligence, if proven, can.
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One minute of work between midnight and 05:00 is enough to limit the day to 10 hours of work. For pay, the night starts at 20:00. Five examples with concrete schedules, what counts and what doesn't, and how much the night work allowance is worth under the collective agreement.
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Royal Decree 806/2026, published today in the BOE, dissolves the Cortes Generales and calls elections for 29 November. With the government acting in a caretaker capacity until a new executive is formed, three files the transport sector had in progress — early retirement for drivers, fuel-price indexing, and the simplified "módulos" tax regime — are now stalled, with no decision in sight before 2027.
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The Court of Justice of the EU dismissed, on 1 October, the appeal brought by eight trailer and semi-trailer manufacturers against the Regulation that sets them CO2 reduction targets through the VECTO-Trailer tool. The Court did not rule on the technical merits: it decided the manufacturers lacked standing to bring the appeal. The regulation remains in force.
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HMRC gave carriers until 30 September to fix recurring errors in the entry summary declaration (ENS) required for goods entering Great Britain. From 1 October, an error in the vehicle or trailer registration can already cost up to £1,000 in fines and delays at the border — even without intent to defraud.
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The Dutch government is applying, from 1 September until 31 December 2026, a 22.3% discount on the entire vrachtwagenheffing — the per-kilometre toll created in July. The average rate drops from €0.191 to €0.148 per kilometre, with collective savings estimated at €80 million. From 1 January 2027, the rate returns to normal.
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Royal Decree 518/2026 takes effect on 1 October and requires, for the first time in Spain, an "emergency lane" on motorways and dual carriageways whenever traffic stops or crawls. It also changes the rule for overtaking cyclists — relevant for anyone driving heavy vehicles on single-lane roads.
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CNAIR's request to postpone the new distance-based toll system for lorries until April 2027 did not go through in time. CNAIR itself has confirmed that testing has finished and that TollRo goes live at midnight on 1 October 2026.
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Decree-Law 195/2026, of 25 September, amends the rules for Euro-Modular combinations: maximum length rises from 25.25 to 32 metres and maximum gross weight from 60 to 72 tonnes. The special transit permit now runs for two years instead of one. The aim is to align Portugal's rules with the model already in force in Spain.
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Royal Decree 518/2026 removes, from 1 October, the exemption that let urban delivery drivers skip the seatbelt during successive short-distance loading and unloading stops. Fenadismer opposes the measure. For last-mile operators in Spanish cities, the exemption disappears even between doorways a few metres apart.
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Road authority CNAIR has asked the Romanian government to postpone the new distance-based toll system for lorries over 3.5 tonnes, due on 1 October, saying pilot testing will not finish before mid-October. A bill to that effect has already been registered in the Senate.
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Austria and Germany have renewed internal Schengen land border controls for six more months, until 15 March 2027. Poland joins from 2 October, with Germany and Lithuania. Expect possible delays for anyone crossing Central Europe.
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Royal Decree 487/2026 came into force on 18 September and allows up to 166 hours of CAP training in synchronous virtual classrooms, with a mandatory camera. The exam and practical training remain always in person, and biometric attendance checks are replaced by another mechanism.
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The final 2026 resolution on aid for self-employed hauliers who quit the profession confirms 320 beneficiaries, priority for those with permanent disability, and sets 19 October as the deadline to submit paperwork and collect the €30,000.
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The EU Commission of Directors-General for Transport approved the year's Inspection Plan on 29 January 2026. The headline: labour checks combined with transport checks to tackle fraud, illegal cabotage and exploitation. The focus is on letterbox companies and digital platforms.
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European drivers' unions, led by the Nordic Federation of Transport Workers (NTF), want smart tachograph data linked to an automatic payroll calculation system, to fight wage fraud and the exploitation of foreign drivers. The idea is being debated in the EU but is not official policy yet.
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The Commission adopted the fair labour mobility package on 15 September. The posted worker's A1 is the first document to go digital, one year after the regulation enters into force. These are proposals: Parliament and Council still have to act.
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From 5 October, the control document for domestic transport in Spain must be electronic, a native PDF with a QR code. The obligation catches cabotage operations — anyone loading and unloading inside Spain. International transport carries on with the CMR.
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Directives (EU) 2025/2205 and 2025/2206 are in force, but almost nothing applies yet. The Commission published its implementation strategy on 29 July. What changes for the professional driver — and when.
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Nine hours at the wheel, a break at 4h30, 45 hours of weekly rest. The rules of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 explained without legalese, with the numbers enforcement officers look at.
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Directive 2002/15/EC sets limits many drivers do not know about: a 48-hour weekly average, a hard ceiling of 60 hours in one week and compulsory breaks that have nothing to do with the tachograph.
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