Guides for European fleet compliance and delivery operations
No fluff and no gated PDFs. Each guide explains one regulation or one operational problem in the terms a dispatcher works in, with links to the primary sources so you can verify every claim.
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Written and maintained by the team building Depot2Door, and reviewed whenever the underlying rules change.
EU driving time and rest rules explained (Regulation 561/2006)
A practical 2026 guide to EU Regulation 561/2006: daily and weekly driving limits, the 45-minute break, split breaks, reduced rests, compensation rules and how fleets prove compliance.
9 min read Compliance guideSmart tachograph generation 2: what fleets must fit, and when
Which vehicles need a second-generation smart tachograph, the retrofit deadlines that already passed, what changes for vans over 2.5 tonnes, and how border-crossing records are enforced.
7 min read Compliance guidePosting of drivers: IMI declarations, cabotage and cross-trade
When a driver counts as posted, which operations are exempt, what an IMI posting declaration must contain, and the documents a driver must be able to show at a roadside check.
8 min read Operations guideeCMR explained: the electronic consignment note in European road freight
What an eCMR is, the legal basis under the CMR Additional Protocol and the eFTI Regulation, which countries accept it, and how to move a fleet from paper consignment notes to digital proof.
7 min read Operations guideHow to reduce failed deliveries in multi-drop European operations
A field-tested playbook for cutting failed first-time deliveries: realistic ETAs, pre-arrival messaging, access data at the stop, structured exception handling and the KPIs that show it worked.
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