GITD Inspections, the KREPTD Register, and How Good Repute Is Lost Quietly
Haulage firms rarely lose a licence to a single catastrophe. The route is quieter: infringements accumulate in an electronic register until good repute is called into question.
What KREPTD is
KREPTD is the national electronic register of road transport undertakings. Serious infringements are recorded there and accumulate against the company. One roadside penalty does not end a licence; accumulation does.
This is why “we’ll pay the fine and move on” is the wrong instinct in transport: paying the penalty does not remove the entry.
Good repute — the most fragile condition
Good repute is assessed separately for the company and for the transport manager. Losing it threatens the licence in exactly the way losing financial standing does, and the manager’s personal record forms part of that assessment.
What inspectors look at most
- Driver documents — attestation, Code 95, driver card
- Driving and rest times — tachograph data
- The operating base — the agreement evidencing your right to use it
- The licence copy — one carried in every vehicle
- Cabotage limits
Cabotage: 3 within 7, then 4 days
Following an international delivery, you may perform up to 3 cabotage operations within 7 days in that country. A 4-day cooling-off period in the same country then applies. Tracking those limits is a planning discipline; breaching them is recorded.
Posting rules
Bilateral transport falls outside the posting rules. Cabotage and cross-trade operations are covered, and they trigger the pay rules of the country concerned. Route planning is therefore a direct cost question, not an administrative one.
Return to base every 8 weeks — annulled
On 4 October 2024 the Court of Justice of the EU annulled the obligation for vehicles to return to base every eight weeks. The annulment rested on procedural grounds — the absence of an impact assessment — not on a finding that the rule was disproportionate. That distinction matters: the subject is not necessarily closed for good.
Related
The licence process: The Polish transport licence
Driver documents: Hiring non-EU drivers
What Meyis does
We treat compliance as continuous work: tracking document expiry, keeping the base and licence-copy file current, reflecting cabotage and posting rules in route planning, and checking the file before an inspection rather than after.
Frequently asked questions
- What is KREPTD?
- The national electronic register of road transport undertakings. Serious infringements are recorded there and accumulate against the company; accumulation is what threatens good repute.
- Does paying a fine clear the record?
- No. Paying the penalty does not remove the entry. What threatens a licence is not one penalty but the accumulation of records.
- What are the cabotage limits?
- After an international delivery you may carry out up to 3 cabotage operations within 7 days in that country, followed by a 4-day cooling-off period in the same country.
- Which operations count as posting?
- Bilateral transport is outside the posting rules. Cabotage and cross-trade operations are covered and trigger the pay rules of the country concerned.
- Do vehicles still have to return to base every 8 weeks?
- No. The Court of Justice of the EU annulled that obligation on 4 October 2024, though on procedural grounds — the lack of an impact assessment — rather than a finding that the rule itself was disproportionate.