We prepare the PWPW application for you: first issue, renewal, replacement after loss and exchange of a foreign card
We get your Polish tachograph driver card (karta kierowcy) sorted: we check your licence and attachments, prepare the photo and signature to PWPW's requirements, complete the application on info-car and watch the status until the card is posted. The PWPW fee is 172.20 PLN, the card is valid for 5 years, and by law PWPW has no more than a month from a complete application. We work with foreign driving licences and with drivers who have no PESEL number. Since 1 July 2026 the card is also needed by drivers of vans over 2.5 t on international runs.
One card, several reasons to apply. The reason decides the attachments, the deadline and what happens to your old card.
Anyone driving a vehicle fitted with a digital tachograph: goods vehicles over 3.5 t (usually cat. C, CE) and passenger vehicles built for more than 9 people including the driver (D, DE). Since 1 July 2026 a tachograph is also required in vans over 2.5 t on international and cabotage runs, so their drivers need the card too. The card is personal: you may not lend it to anyone, and a driver may hold only one valid card.
For drivers applying for a Polish card for the first time. You need a valid driving licence - Polish or foreign - a photo on a white background, a signature sample, a PESEL or passport details, and the 172.20 PLN fee. In the application you declare that your normal residence is in Poland.
The card is valid for 5 years and does not renew itself. PWPW accepts the application no earlier than 60 days before expiry, and it must be filed no later than 15 working days before that date. You cannot drive on an expired card, so do not leave it to the last week.
You must apply for a replacement within 7 calendar days. For a lost card you attach a declaration of loss (oświadczenie o utracie karty), for a stolen one a police certificate, and a damaged card goes back to PWPW by post. You may keep driving without the card for up to 15 calendar days if you can prove you cannot use it - info-car issues a certificate for that. The duplicate keeps the expiry date of the old card.
If you hold a valid card issued in another country and now live in Poland, it is exchanged for a Polish one: you post the foreign card to PWPW, which returns it to the authority that issued it. An application for a "first issue" while a foreign card is still active will be rejected.
Without a PESEL, the application carries the number and name of your identity document (usually a passport) and the authority that issued it. A Polish licence is not a condition: PWPW accepts a scan of a foreign one and verifies the data itself. To keep that check short, we attach a copy of your świadectwo kierowcy (driver attestation) or a karta kwalifikacji kierowcy (driver qualification card) with code 95.
You send scans of your licence and passport, a photo and a signature. We do the rest, from checking the documents to the card being posted.
At the consultation (300 PLN, credited towards the service) we work out the application type: first issue, renewal, replacement or foreign-card exchange. We check your driving licence - whether it is valid in Poland - and whether you already hold an active card from another country.
We prepare a photo that meets PWPW requirements, the signature scan, the licence scan, and your PESEL or passport details. For a foreign licence we pick the document that speeds up verification: a driver attestation or a driver qualification card.
You pay the PWPW fee of 172.20 PLN (140 PLN net) directly: online while filing, or by transfer to the PWPW account, in which case we attach the proof to the application.
We complete the wniosek (application) and upload the attachments, and you sign it yourself: with a profil zaufany (trusted profile), an e-ID or a qualified signature. If you have none of these, we prepare a paper form: you sign it by hand and we post the set to PWPW.
PWPW issues the card within a month of a complete application, and electronic applications move faster than paper ones. We track the status and respond if PWPW asks for anything to be completed.
PWPW posts the card to the Polish address given in the application: home, correspondence or company address. When it arrives, check the data and the expiry date.
We set a reminder 60 days before expiry: from that day PWPW accepts a renewal application, and the final deadline is 15 working days before expiry. A popular service for transport firms with a number of drivers.
Starting list. We tailor the exact set to your application type and situation.
If an application fails verification, PWPW rejects it and keeps 25.83 PLN of the fee. Here is what we check before you pay.
You attach a scan of any licence issued outside Poland and, where the national licence is only valid together with an international permit, a scan of that permit too. PWPW checks the data in the registers, and when it cannot, it asks the authority that issued the licence, which stretches the timeline. That is why PWPW itself recommends adding a copy of a Polish świadectwo kierowcy (driver attestation) or a karta kwalifikacji kierowcy (driver qualification card) with a current code 95, issued in the EU, Switzerland, an EFTA state or the UK. We establish which of these you already hold in the first conversation.
In the application you declare that you hold a valid driving licence, and a false declaration is a criminal offence under art. 233 § 6 of the Polish Criminal Code. Yet a licence issued outside the EU, Switzerland and the EFTA states entitles you to drive in Poland for only 6 months from the start of your permanent or temporary stay (art. 5(4) of the Drivers Act). PWPW may ask for documents on the status of such a licence, and verification then drags on. If you have lived in Poland for more than half a year, we start by exchanging the licence for a Polish one and apply for the card with that.
A Polish card goes to a driver who normally lives in Poland, meaning at least 185 days in each calendar year because of personal and occupational ties (art. 26 of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014). No certificate is needed - it is a declaration inside the application, made under criminal liability, and PWPW asks for evidence when in doubt. A driver who works for a Polish carrier but does not yet live in Poland may, in exceptional cases, get a temporary non-renewable card: once, for up to 185 days, with a statement from the employer and a driver attestation.
A driver may hold only one valid card, and PWPW checks this in TACHOnet. If you have an active card from another country, an application for a first Polish card will be rejected. You apply instead on the ground of a change of country of residence and post the old card to PWPW - without it the application is not processed. If the foreign card is lost, you first report the loss to the authority that issued it, and only then apply for a Polish one with a declaration of loss attached.
The photo: white background, face front-on or left half-profile, no headwear or dark glasses, taken within the last 6 months, the whole head and upper shoulders visible, the face filling 70-80% of the frame. PWPW lists what gets photos rejected: face too large, blur, visible pixels, closed eyes, uneven lighting, tilted head, objects in the background. The signature goes in black ink, strictly inside the box, because it is printed on the card. On a paper form nothing may be added or corrected by hand, and a missing date or signature means rejection.
By law PWPW issues the card within a month of receiving a complete application, plus postal delivery. Electronic applications are, in PWPW's own words, processed much faster than paper ones. If the application is rejected, 25.83 PLN of the 172.20 PLN is kept, the rest is refunded, and a new application has to be paid for in full. Renewals run on two dates: you can file no earlier than 60 days before expiry and no later than 15 working days before it - then the new card must be issued before the old one runs out.
You pay the PWPW fee (172.20 PLN) directly; our fee is fixed.
* The PWPW fee is the same for a first issue, a renewal and a replacement: 172.20 PLN gross (140 PLN net). If PWPW rejects the application, it keeps 25.83 PLN for processing and refunds the rest, and a new application must be paid for in full.
The fixed part is the PWPW fee: 172.20 PLN gross (140 PLN net). It is the same for a first issue, a renewal and a replacement, and you pay it to PWPW directly: online while filing or by bank transfer. On top comes our fee for handling the case end to end: 500 PLN. If PWPW rejects the application it keeps 25.83 PLN for processing, which is why we check the set before you pay.
A 30-minute consultation for 300 PLN, credited towards the service: we pin down the application type and prepare the documents and the info-car application. Foreigners without a PESEL - we handle you too.
