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eCMR Consignment Note

The consignment note is the contract of carriage for road freight across the 55 states party to the CMR Convention, and its electronic form — the eCMR — is what a driver presents at a roadside check. From 9 July 2027, authorities in every EU member state must accept freight transport information presented electronically through a certified eFTI platform.

This is a production-ready French lettre de voiture électronique for a Lyon → Cologne movement, carrier-branded and driven entirely by a companion data file.

  • Every particular the Convention requires, numbered as on the model form. Sender, consignee, carrier and successive carriers; place and date of taking over; goods with marks, packages, packing method, gross weight and volume; charges; customs formalities; and the clause subjecting the carriage to the CMR — plus the declarations that decide liability: declared value, special interest in delivery, cash on delivery and the sender's insurance instructions. Each box keeps its familiar number, so a claims file or a roadside question that says "box 18" still lands where it should — and a closing annex lists all 24, including the two places where this layout deliberately departs from the model form.
  • Declarations you tick, not prose you read. Dangerous goods (ADR), temperature-controlled transport, franco terms, carrier's reserves and conformity on receipt are radio groups; the currency of each charge line is a dropdown; place, date and signature of the consignee stay fillable for delivery.
  • Two barcodes, two situations. The QR code carries the platform link (UIL) an inspector scans for the full data set. The vertical edge barcode carries a self-contained payload — number, date, route, packages, weight, ADR class, tractor plate — that reads with no network at all.
  • Signature evidence a paper note cannot carry. Each signature shows the signatory, timestamp, GPS position, the eIDAS assurance level, and a SHA-256 fingerprint set in monospace.
  • A sealed audit trail. A data-driven event log — creation, each signature, departure, pending delivery — with actor, place, GPS and per-event fingerprint.
  • An itinerary that proves waiting time. Loading and unloading each show arrival and departure, the evidence a detention claim rests on.
  • Plus the carrier's logo bound from data, an intentional page break before the terms and signatures, page numbering that stays live in Word, and a three-copy designation bound to data so the same template prints the sender's, the consignee's and the carrier's original.

One JSON source and one data file produce the same document as a PDF and as a Word file, with the form controls interactive in both.

Features used: SVG, Form Fields, Field Types, Barcodes, Data Binding, Tables, Columns, Watermarks, Page Breaks, Headers & Footers, Fonts, Shortcodes, Styles