About us
Cargonary is an independent publication on road haulage in Europe: rules read at the source, official cost figures and free calculators, country by country.
Cargonary answers the practical questions of people who run trucks in Europe: how many hours you can drive, what the tachograph records, when an ADR load stays exempt, what a kilometre really costs, what fine you face in Germany or Spain.
Who we write for
People who work with trucks. Owners of small and medium haulage firms, owner-drivers, drivers, fleet managers, transport planners, and the consultants who look after them. We write like a colleague who has read the regulation for you and walks you through it with the article open on the table.
What you will find here
- Rules. Drivers’ hours and rest, tachographs, ADR, cabotage, posting of drivers, CMR, fines. With the article and paragraph of the law and a link to the official text.
- Costs. Cost per kilometre, diesel, tolls, minimum driver pay, grants. Only figures with a source and a date.
- Vehicles and tech. Smart tachographs, data downloads, telematics, electric and gas trucks.
- Market. Road freight in figures, the driver shortage, hauliers country by country.
- Tools. Free calculators built on the text of the law: drivers’ hours, the ADR 1.1.3.6 exemption, cost per kilometre, fines by country.
Always the country
Drivers’ hours are the same across the European Union; the fines are not. Every article says whether a rule is EU-wide or belongs to one country, and when it is national it cites that country’s law, with a link to its official gazette. Rules in Great Britain are covered separately, because they now follow their own legislation.
Who publishes Cargonary
Cargonary is an independent editorial project published by Geremia Signorella, sole trader (ditta individuale, Italy). The publisher’s details are in the Legal notice. Articles carry no personal byline: the publication takes responsibility for them.
How we choose topics, read sources and keep pages up to date is explained in How we work. You can reach us through the Contact page or at redazione@cargonary.com.
The name
Cargonary comes from cargo, a word understood in every language we publish in.