Native eCMR, issued and sealed by Druma

Druma fills the consignment note itself, boxes 1 to 24, from the order. The sender, the driver and the consignee sign on screen, and Druma seals the finished PDF. No outside eCMR service is involved.

One delivery, three signatures

A load leaves a sender in Oradea with two drops, in Budapest and in Győr. Druma makes two notes, one per delivery. The sender signs on the order screen in Druma, opened by a planner, and the driver signs in the driver app before setting off. At the ramp in Budapest the warehouse clerk scans a QR code, or opens a link, and signs on their own phone with no account and no app. When that third signature is in, Druma builds the PDF, seals it and emails it. The Győr note follows the same way at the second drop.

Labels are printed in English plus the sender's and the consignee's languages, when those are among Druma's ten. The Oradea notes are therefore in English, Romanian and Hungarian.

The boxes a claims handler reads first are filled: the carrier's reservations in box 18, taken from the driver's damage notes, the consignee's reservations in box 24, the statement that the carriage is subject to the CMR, and the ADR declaration for dangerous goods. The charge boxes stay blank unless you fill them, so the consignee does not read your freight rate.

For a load you pass to a subcontractor, a neutral CMR hides the real sender's name and country.

Onward legs after a hub split

Take a load from Bochum to your hub in Arad, split there for Sibiu and Cluj. The line haul travels on the order's note, Bochum to Arad. Each onward leg gets a note of its own. That note names the hub as sender and place of taking over, and the leg's drop as consignee and place of delivery. It lists only the goods and quantities on that leg, and the carrier who drives it, your own truck or a subcontractor.

A leg note is issued, signed and sealed like any other: the same signing flow, the driver app, the PAdES seal and its own eFTI data set. It stays linked to the order and to the line-haul note.

What the seal proves

The PDF is sealed in PAdES format inside Druma. From that moment the note cannot be edited. The database refuses any change to the signed content, and a later correction is stored next to it as a separate, dated exception. The CMR Convention sets no retention period; Druma keeps sealed notes for seven years after delivery.

As of November 2026 the seal certificate is self-signed, and the seal carries an RFC-3161 timestamp from FreeTSA, a free service Adobe does not trust. If FreeTSA is unreachable, the seal still completes, with no timestamp. The seal shows that nothing changed after signing. It cannot yet show an outsider who sealed it: Adobe Reader reports "signature validity unknown", because it cannot trace the certificate to a public authority.

The 2008 e-CMR Protocol asks for a "reliable" electronic signature and does not mention a qualified one. How a particular court weighs a note is a question for your counsel.

Three ways to seal

• Druma's advanced electronic seal, the one described above: included on every truck plan, with no limit on the number of eCMRs.
• Your own qualified electronic seal, on request: Druma seals your notes with your seal through your qualified trust service provider. You pay that provider directly, and Druma takes no cut.
• Druma's qualified electronic seal on every eCMR of your company, on request, at a price per eCMR agreed in writing.

A qualified seal adds what the Protocol does not require: the eIDAS presumption that the data is intact and comes from the sealer (Regulation 910/2014, Art. 35(2)).

Where it counts as a CMR

Between states that are parties to the Protocol, the electronic note has the same effect and evidentiary force as the paper one.

Examples for common lanes. The full list of parties is in the UN Treaty Collection (treaty XI-B-11-b), read on 1 November 2026.

The Benelux pilot between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg runs to 9 July 2027, but it covers transport inside Benelux only, so it does not help on a Poland to Belgium move. On a load to or from Belgium, keep a paper note in the cab.

Roadside checks

The driver app shows a QR code that opens a read-only view of the note for an inspector, in one of ten languages. Every issue, signature and access is written to an append-only log. From 9 July 2027 EU authorities must accept data from certified eFTI platforms (Regulation (EU) 2020/1056); as of October 2026 the certification rules are not adopted, so Druma, like every other platform, is not certified.