Carry out international road haulage
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What UK goods vehicle operators need to do to carry out international road haulage.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What UK goods vehicle operators need to do to carry out international road haulage. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Apply for operator licences and permits
- Register your vehicle trailers
- Abnormal load trailers
- Get specialist vehicle approvals
- Get the right vehicle documents
- Make sure your driver is eligible to drive abroad
- Make sure you're ready to import and export
- Complete a road consignment (CMR) note
- Declare you're transporting goods inside the EU
- Check an HGV is ready to cross the border (Kent Access Permit)
- Follow Kent traffic management plans
- Customs and document checks away from ports
- Checks carried out at inland border facilities
- Check local road rules
- What to do if your vehicle is involved in a road collision
Source and licence
Department for Transport
AttributionDepartment for Transport, ‘Carry out international road haulage’ (updated 19 March 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026