The Regulation aims to organize the freight transport sector by trucks, enhance the professional efficiency of drivers and operations managers, improve the operational efficiency of trucks, raise the level of road safety, preserve the environment, and enhance the competitiveness of the sector to provide the best services, as well as regulate the contractual relationship between all parties involved in the transport process.
 

Without prejudice to the provisions of the Traffic Law and its executive regulation, as well as the relevant systems and decisions, and the provisions of international agreements to which the Kingdom is a party:

• 1. The provisions of this regulation apply to the transportation of goods on roads for hire or for private account, the activities of freight forwarders, and the leasing of trucks that are carried out within the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• 2. The provisions of this regulation do not apply to:

  • A- Transportation by trucks with a gross weight of (3,500) three thousand five hundred kilograms or less, or their leasing.

  • B- The transportation of medical and food devices, equipment, and other goods and materials in cases of relief, emergencies, and natural disasters.

  • C- Transportation by trucks owned by military forces and government entities.

  • D- The transportation of vehicles and the towing of vehicles subject to the provisions of the regulation governing the activity of vehicle transportation and towing approved by the authority.

Any of the activities shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation by:

• 1. Establishments after obtaining a license for that.

• 2. Saudi individuals - limited to the activity of transporting goods - after obtaining a license for that.

If the licensed entity wishes to engage in the activity of transporting goods or the activity of a freight forwarder, and to transport postal parcels or mediate in that, it must obtain a postal parcel transport license from the competent authority.

1. The conditions of the License stated in Article (5) are essential for its validity. In the event of a breach of any of these conditions, the License shall be suspended, and the establishment shall not engage in the activity of transporting goods until the condition is fulfilled. If the condition is not fulfilled within a maximum period of (90) ninety days from the date of the License suspension, the License shall be considered canceled, without prejudice to the authority's right to impose the prescribed financial fine for that condition.

2. If there is a deficiency in the minimum number of single cargo vehicles and/or tractors necessary to carry out the activity of transporting goods due to accidents or disasters beyond the establishment's control, and the deficiency is not rectified within (180) one hundred eighty days from the date of the deficiency occurrence, the License shall be considered canceled, without prejudice to the authority's right to impose the prescribed financial fine for the reduction of the minimum number of single cargo vehicles or tractors.