Resources
Every paper, every penalty, every due date
Reference pages for Indian truck fleets, written from the Motor Vehicles Act, the Central Motor Vehicles Rules and state notifications. Read them, share them with your munshi, or let PRACHSO track the dates for you.
- Document guides
- 15
- Challan pages
- 15
- State pages
- 12
- Glossary terms
- 50
Start here
The truck documents guide
Eleven chapters on every document an Indian goods vehicle and its driver must hold: who issues it, how long it lasts, how to renew it and what a lapse costs. It ends with the fleet document register as an Excel workbook.
Inside
- 01The full document set and what goes in the cabin
- 02Registration and why it depends on fitness
- 03Fitness: two years, then every year after eight
- 04Permits and the yearly NP authorisation
- 05Insurance and the one uninsured day
- 06PUC, road tax, devices and licences
- 07E-challans and the fleet document register
Reference library
Pick the page for the paper in front of you
Document guides
One page per document, grouped by vehicle, permit, driver and hazardous goods. Validity, renewal steps, penalty and the mistakes behind most lapses.
- Fitness
- National permit
- NP authorisation
- Insurance
- PUC
- Road tax
- Transport licence
- TREM card
Challan guide
Section, first and repeat amounts, and how each offence is detected.
₹20,000 + ₹2,000 per extra tonne for overloading
15 offencesState rules
Road tax structure, permit notes and testing station status for 12 states, each with the date last checked.
By stateCalculators
Fitness due date, PUC due date, road tax due date, challan fine lookup and the cost of a lapse.
5 toolsFree fleet scan
Send up to 25 vehicle numbers. Get every expired document, everything due in 30 days and every pending challan.
Scan 25 trucks freeBlog
Automated testing stations, ANPR cameras, virtual courts, who pays the challan, and what a lapsed policy means after an accident.
12 articlesGlossary
RC, FC, NP, PUC, VLTD, ATS, TREM, ANPR, VAHAN, SARATHI, ULIP and the rest, in plain English.
50 termsQuick answers
Questions munshis ask us most
Each one opens the page with the full answer and the section or rule behind it.
- What is the fine for driving a truck without insurance?Section 196
- How often does a truck need a fitness test?CMVR rule 62
- What does overloading cost per extra tonne?Section 194(1)
- Is the national permit authorisation renewed every year?Yes, yearly
- How long is a BS-VI truck's PUC valid?CMVR rule 115
- Can an LMV licence holder drive a small truck?Up to 7,500 kg GVW
Newsletter
The Permit Desk
One short note when a rule that affects truck papers changes: a MoRTH notification, a new testing station deadline, a state tax revision, a change in how challans are enforced. Nothing else.
- Sent only when something changes, never on a schedule
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