Going on holiday? Carry parcels and share your travel costs.
Space in the boot or an almost empty trailer? Garages and private individuals are looking for someone going their way for a car part, a piece of furniture or a motorbike. You ask for a contribution to your costs, never more than the cost of your journey.
- Mobile number verified by text message
- Journeys in France
- No SIRET
What you can carry
Goods that travel with you, on the journey you are making anyway.
- Car partsGearbox, wheel rims, doors, bumpers: packed and secured.
- Bulky itemsA piece of furniture, a household appliance, boxes too large for a standard parcel.
- Motorbikes and scootersOn your trailer, strapped down: 2 at most per journey.
Never a car
No cars, not even classic cars, no vans, no 4x4s and no unspecified goods. A car travels with a professional carrier: car transport on a flatbed.
How it works
- Step 1: Your accountWith Google or your email address, then your first name and surname. You undertake to carry goods only during your own journeys.
- Step 2: Your mobile number and your photoA code received by text message verifies your mobile number (one number, one account only); you add a profile photo, which you can change but not remove. Your account is then approved.
- Step 3: Your journeyDeparture, arrival, date: a one-off journey in France that you are making for yourself. With or without a trailer.
- Step 4: ContributionsYou receive requests along your route and propose your contribution, for the date of your journey and below the cap. The customer books, and you exchange contact details.
Cost-sharing never exceeds the cost of your journey.
The contributions booked on the same journey, all parcels combined, stay below a cap: the journey length estimated by the site (stops included, at most 1.3 times the direct distance) × €0.636 per kilometre, the mileage scale (barème kilométrique). You set your contribution below this cap; the site shows you what remains with each quote and checks it again at booking.
- Estimated length
- 509 km
- Mileage scale
- €0.636/km
- Cap for the whole journey
- €323.72
Before you set off
Cost-sharing, not a trade: a few rules, and what remains your responsibility.
A limited number of journeys
4 open journeys at a time and 24 per year at most, over a rolling twelve-month period, cancelled journeys included, and only one per day. One-off journeys, in France, that you make for yourself, with or without parcels. If you cancel a journey, your quotes on that journey are withdrawn.
Your insurance
Your car’s compulsory insurance does not cover the goods you carry (Article R211-8 of the Code des assurances, the French Insurance Code): ask your insurer what your policy provides. A trailer over 750 kg must be insured separately. The customer is informed of this: transport between private individuals, with no professional insurance and no legal guarantee of conformity.
Your driving licence
A category B licence is enough for a trailer of up to 750 kg, or a heavier one if the car and the trailer together do not exceed 3,500 kg (gross vehicle weight). Up to 4,250 kg, you need the B96 entitlement, after a training course; beyond that, a BE licence. Details on service-public.gouv.fr (in French): B licence and trailer, BE licence.
Your taxes
Amounts received as cost-sharing are not taxable as long as they do not exceed your actual costs, not counting your own share. Beyond that, they must be declared. Plateau Libre reminds you of this with every transaction (Article 242 bis of the Code général des impôts, the French General Tax Code).Income from collaborative platforms (impots.gouv.fr, in French)Collaborative economy: how to declare (economie.gouv.fr, in French)
Your questions
How much can a private individual ask for?
A contribution to your travel costs, which you set yourself, without VAT. The contributions from all quotes booked on the same journey cannot exceed a limit calculated from the length of the journey and the mileage scale: the site shows it to you and checks it with each quote, then at booking.
Sums received as cost-sharing are not taxable as long as they do not exceed your actual costs, excluding your own share. Above that, they must be declared.
How am I notified of a new request?
By email, as soon as a request matching one of your journeys is published: only one alert per request, even if several of your journeys match. After 10 alerts in one day, any further ones are grouped into a summary the next morning.
The alert also arrives by text message on your account’s mobile number, which you confirm with each journey you publish (private individual: your verified mobile number), unless you have turned off text messages in your profile. The summary only arrives by email.
All matching requests remain visible in your carrier area.
Can I cancel a job?
Yes, as long as the vehicle has not been collected and until the end of the proposed collection day, giving a reason. The request is reopened to other carriers, the customer is notified, and the cancellation is counted in the statistics shown on your profile.
After that, contact our team.
Can a private individual respond to my request?
Yes, for car parts, a bulky item or a motorbike, if a private individual is making a matching journey for themselves, for example setting off on holiday. They only ask for a contribution to their travel costs, without VAT and limited according to the length of their journey. They never carry a car, a van or a 4x4.
Their quote carries the labels “Private individual” and “Verified mobile number”, never “SIRET verified”. Transport between private individuals: no professional insurance and no legal guarantee of conformity.
To receive quotes only from insured professionals, tick “I require a professional carrier who invoices” in your request and choose the required insurance: no private individual will then receive it.
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