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Are you a driver of a truck or bus and have lost your driver card? Then you need to apply for a replacement card.

The driver card is used to record driving times and rest periods for the commercial transportation of goods and passengers.

If you have lost your driver card as a truck or bus driver, 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 periods 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 this would have been valid for more than 6 months. The period of validity therefore does not start again from the beginning.

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 competent authority 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.

• 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 are resident in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• You have a valid driver's license with one of the following categories: B, BE, C1, C1E, C, CE, D1, D1E, D, DE.
• Your valid driver's license must correspond to one of the above categories if it was issued in an EEA member state.

There are no indications or special features.

• Driver card replacement due to loss
• Replacement card must be applied for if driver card is lost
• Bus drivers and HGV drivers in commercial road traffic require a valid driver card
• from the time of loss, the person concerned may continue to drive without a valid driver card for a maximum of 15 days
• 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

To apply for a driver's license, please contact the driver's licensing authority of the locally responsible district or city administration of the independent and large district towns; in the area of the large district towns of Bingen am Rhein and Ingelheim am Rhein, contact the Mainz-Bingen district administration.

District administrations or city administrations of the independent and large district cities