Replace driver card due to loss
The driver card is used to record driving times and rest periods in the commercial transport of goods and passengers.
If you are a driver of trucks or buses and have lost your driver card, you can apply for a replacement card from the office responsible for you.
From the time of loss, you may continue to drive without a valid driver card for a maximum of 15 days until you receive the replacement driver card. As long as you are not in possession of your driver card, you must record the driving and rest times manually. You must make printouts of these from the digital tachograph and carry them with you.
The replacement driver card is valid until the same date as the lost original card - if it would have been valid for more than 6 months. Therefore, the validity period does not start all over again.
When the replacement card is issued, the previous card loses its validity. If you do find it again, you must return the driver card to the responsible office or the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). You may not continue to use it.
Your employer is not obliged to reimburse you for the cost of the driver card.
- Driver card replacement due to loss
- If you lose your driver card, you must apply for a replacement card
- Bus drivers and truck drivers in commercial road traffic require a valid driver card
- from the time of loss, the person concerned may continue to drive for a maximum of 15 days without a valid driver card
- as long as the driver does not have a driver card, printouts from the digital tachograph must be made and carried with them
- Responsible: different authorities depending on the federal state, e.g. driving license authority, TÜV, Dekra or others
- Application for a replacement driver card
- Proof of identity
- Valid domestic driving license or driving license from a country of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)
- entitles the holder to drive vehicles for which regulations on driving times and rest periods must be observed
- Proof of residence in Germany and address
- Proof of birth and surname, first names, date and place of birth
- 35 mm x 45 mm photograph against a light background showing a frontal view of the applicant without headgear (biometric passport photo)
- Written declaration of loss
- the issuing authority may also require the holder of the driver card to provide a sworn declaration stating that he/she is unable to return the driver card and for what reasons
- You have your residence in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- You hold a valid driver's license with one of the following classes: B, BE, C1, C1E, C, CE, D1, D1E, D, DE.
- Your valid driving license must correspond to one of the aforementioned classes if it was issued in an EEA member state.
There are no indications or special features.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
- Driver card replacement due to loss
- If you lose your driver card, you must apply for a replacement card
- Bus drivers and truck drivers in commercial road traffic require a valid driver card
- from the time of loss, the person concerned may continue to drive for a maximum of 15 days without a valid driver card
- as long as the driver does not have a driver card, printouts from the digital tachograph must be made and carried with them
- Responsible: different authorities depending on the federal state, e.g. driving license authority, TÜV, Dekra or others
- Application for a replacement driver card
- Proof of identity
- Valid domestic driving license or driving license from a country of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)
- entitles the holder to drive vehicles for which regulations on driving times and rest periods must be observed
- Proof of residence in Germany and address
- Proof of birth and surname, first names, date and place of birth
- 35 mm x 45 mm photograph against a light background showing a frontal view of the applicant without headgear (biometric passport photo)
- Written declaration of loss
- the issuing authority may also require the holder of the driver card to provide a sworn declaration stating that he/she is unable to return the driver card and for what reasons
- You have your residence in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- You hold a valid driver's license with one of the following classes: B, BE, C1, C1E, C, CE, D1, D1E, D, DE.
- Your valid driving license must correspond to one of the aforementioned classes if it was issued in an EEA member state.
There are no indications or special features.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.