First, you need to determine the activity of your future transport company, thus allowing you to define the vehicles you will use. Depending on the maximum authorized weight (PMA). In all cases, two options are available to you:

• Light goods transport: Light vehicle < 3.5t
• Road freight transport: Heavy goods vehicles > 3.5t

A regulated profession:

Except for transport on own account, the conditions of access to the profession of road haulier are defined at European level by the "Road Package".

We call "road package" all the rules resulting from the adoption by the European institutions, in October 2009, of three regulations, which concern respectively the conditions of access to the profession of transporters and the conditions of access to the transport market, both for goods and for passengers.

The 4 requirements to meet to access the profession of road freight transporter:

• The establishment requirement
  
• The requirement of honorability
  
• The requirement of professional capacity
• The financial capacity requirement

Road passenger transport is divided into three main categories:

• Public transport
  
• Private public transport
  
• Private transport services

A regulated profession:

• At European level 1
  
• At European level 2
• At the National level
  

Requirements to be met to access the profession of road passenger transport

• They are identical to the profession of road freight transporter

Authorization to practice or registration in the register

When the conditions of access to the corresponding profession are met, the company is registered in the register corresponding to the activity it wishes to exercise.

Registration results in the issue of an operating permit and then a transport license.

Transport tickets issued to road hauliers

These transport titles allow companies to access the national market for domestic transport licenses, and the national and European market for community licenses.

• A

  Community license

  when the company uses coaches.
  

• A
• domestic transport license
• when the company uses vehicles other than buses or coaches or when it is registered in the register of transporters by way of exception, or when it declares that it limits its activity to the overseas department or the region where it is established.
  

For the above activities, certified numbered copies of the licenses are issued to be placed on board the vehicles.