International road haulage: HGV driver documents
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Check which documents you need to carry if you're the driver or a passenger in a lorry or other heavy goods vehicle (HGV) that crosses international borders.
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
Check which documents you need to carry if you're the driver or a passenger in a lorry or other heavy goods vehicle (HGV) that crosses international borders. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Driving licences and international driving permits
- Driver CPC for lorry drivers
- If you work for a UK company and have a UK Driver CPC card
- If you work for an EU company and have a UK Driver CPC card
- Drivers' hours documents and tachographs
- Vehicle and trailer insurance and green cards
- Where you need green cards
- Make sure your employer has got green cards
- When you will have to show your green cards
- If you're involved in a road collision
- Passport
- Visas
- Healthcare
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing
Source and licence
Department for Transport
AttributionDepartment for Transport, ‘International road haulage: HGV driver documents’ (updated 9 July 2024), 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