Changes to the TTN from July 26, 2026: what you need to know

By order of the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine dated 12.12.2025 No. 1727, changes were made to the form of the consignment note (hereinafter referred to as the TTN). From July 26, 2026, a new requisite appears in the TTN form - “Place of storage of the vehicle”. You can fill it out now, although it will become mandatory only from the specified date.

We remind you that from January 3, 2025, the TTN is drawn up exclusively in the form given in Appendix 7 to the Rules for the carriage of goods by road in Ukraine, approved by order of the Ministry of Transport dated 14.10.1997 No. 363 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules No. 363). The enterprise does not have the right to change the structure of the form - all the columns provided for by the form must be reproduced, even if some of them are not filled in in a particular case. Only the omission of the explanatory text in brackets, changing the sheet format and printing on one or more pages are allowed. At the same time, the parties to the carriage may, by mutual agreement, add their own details, if they do not distort the content of the main form (clause 11.1 of the Rules No. 363).

New requisite: “Place of storage of the vehicle”This requisite is directly related to the Regulations on the peculiarities of the work and rest regime of drivers (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations). In the new TTN form, there is an asterisk next to the corresponding column with an explanation: the requisite is filled in in cases provided for by the Regulations.Clause 5 of the Regulation defines the categories of transportation that are not subject to its requirements, provided that the transportation is carried out within a radius of up to 100 km as the crow flies from the location of the business entity or the place of storage of the vehicle (hereinafter referred to as the vehicle). Such categories include, in particular:

• transportation without payment for the needs of the driver’s main activity (vehicles up to 7.5 tons, driving is not the main profession);
• technical assistance and evacuation by specialized transport;
• transportation by agricultural and forestry enterprises by rented transport;
• freight transportation by eco-transport (gas/electricity) weighing up to 7.5 tons;
• transportation of live animals between farms, markets and slaughterhouses;
• transportation of construction equipment, if the driver is not a professional driver, and others.

In each of these cases, recording the place of storage of the vehicle in the TTN justifies the right to be excluded from the scope of the Regulation.

Special attention deserves the general paragraph at the end of paragraph 5 of the Regulation, not tied to a specific exception:

the location of the business entity, its structural unit or branch where the vehicle is stored is indicated in the TTN. In addition, Section III of the Regulation allows for the extension of the driver's daily and weekly driving time to get to the place of storage of the vehicle - and it is the entry in the TTN that will serve as evidence of the legality of such an extension.

In view of this, until the appearance of official explanations from the Ministry of Development, the recommendation is unequivocal: it is advisable for all carriers subject to the Regulation to indicate the place of storage of the vehicle, regardless of the specific category of transportation.

Mandatory details of the TTNThe list of mandatory details is established in Art. 48 of the Law of Ukraine dated 05.04.2001 No. 2344-III "On Road Transport" (hereinafter referred to as Law No. 2344) and with the entry into force of Order No. 1727, it does not change:

• date and place of compilation - the actual place of loading of the cargo is indicated (not the legal address of the enterprise), with the name of the settlement in accordance with the Codifier of Administrative-Territorial Units under DSTU 4163:2020;
• consignor - full name (or full name for an individual entrepreneur),
• EDRPOU code or registration number of the taxpayer's registration card (hereinafter referred to as RNOKPP);
• road carrier - a similar amount of data plus the driver's name and license number;
• consignee - full name and identification codes;
• vehicle – make, model, type, registration number, overall weight parameters (length, width, height, total weight with cargo, gross weight);
• loading and unloading points.

The absence of any of these details is grounds for declaring the TTN invalid, which is equivalent to its absence. The fine for the absence of the TTN is UAH 17,000 per carrier (Article 60 of Law No. 2344).

Determination of the parties to the transportationA fundamental point: the identification of the participants in the TTN is based on the actual movement of the cargo, and not on the contractual structure.

The consignor (Article 1 of Law No. 2344) is a person who directly transfers the cargo from his warehouse or storage place to the driver. This is not necessarily the supplier, seller or customer of the transportation. It is the consignor who is responsible for the accuracy of the information in the TTN, since only he has actual access to information about the characteristics of the cargo.

The consignee (Article 1 of Law No. 2344) is the person who actually receives the cargo and unloads the vehicle. This is not necessarily the buyer of the goods or the end consumer, but the person at whose facility the vehicle arrives and whose representative signs the TTN.

The road carrier (Article 1 of Law No. 2344, clause 1.3 of Rules No. 363) is the owner or lessee of the vehicle who directly carries out the transportation. Even if the contract is concluded with