What does the calendar cover?
It covers six countries: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. It adds a few regional and EU rows that affect fleets that buy vehicles or connectivity across borders. The topics are transport licenses and cards, SIM and IoT rules, device approvals and tracking mandates, personal-data rules, and the network shutdowns that affect older trackers.
We read official texts where we could reach them, and we say so on each row. Where we could not, the row rests on a news report or a law-firm note, and it says "Secondary: verify". Fines and fees are not listed, because the amounts are reported differently from source to source.
How to read a row
Start with the date type. It tells you what the date means.
| Date type | What the date means |
|---|---|
| Deadline | A date by which something must be done or a period ends. |
| Takes effect | A rule or restriction starts to apply. |
| Published | The date a decision or law was published or reported. Check its own start date. |
| Watch | A change is under discussion or has no dates yet. Nothing is due. |
| Rolling | A rule that runs from a trigger, such as 120 days from activation, not from a calendar date. |
Days left is the date minus the as-of date. The Timing column turns it into a label: Passed, Within 90 days, Within 180 days or Later. Set the as-of date to a fixed day if you want a report that does not change when you open it.
Dates that matter in the next 12 months
These rows are the ones to read first as of 2026-10-27. Read each source before you act.
- Saudi Arabia, 2027-02-27. The Transport General Authority extended the status-adjustment deadline for heavy and light goods operators, in a decision published in September 2026. The gazette page shows a Hijri date that does not match, so confirm the date on the source.
- Saudi Arabia, rolling. The IoT Regulations allow a foreign SIM for up to 120 days, then a local SIM is needed. Count from the day each SIM starts working in the kingdom.
Watch items
A watch row has nothing due yet. Oman set up a committee in Decision 137/2026 to review heavy-vehicle requirements, and no findings are out. Saudi Arabia has a professional-competence test for professional and hazmat driver cards that starts when a training program launches. In Bahrain, a proposal for mandatory digital monitoring of trucks was submitted: it is not a law. Read these again when you re-check the calendar.
Your own dates
The My dates sheet is for the documents that you hold: operating cards, driver cards, permits, licenses and certificates. Enter the expiry date from the document. The sheet works out the reminder date and tells you when a document has expired or a reminder is due. Validity periods differ by card and country, so never guess them.
Limits
The calendar is a starting point, not legal advice and not an approval. It was read on 2026-10-27 and it will age. It does not cover Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Africa, insurer requirements or tracking mandates in Qatar and Kuwait, because those were not researched. Your legal team and the regulator decide what applies to you.