Your parcel leaves right now, in a dedicated taxi

Yes. A licensed taxi operator may carry goods and documents for payment, with the journey recorded on the taximeter like any other fare. It is a long-standing and perfectly regulated practice: what matters is that the pickup takes place inside the licence's home zone, which is the case for any collection in Paris or Île-de-France.

In Paris and the inner suburbs, allow thirty to sixty minutes between your call and the driver reaching the pickup point. In the outer suburbs it is often one hour to ninety minutes. If you know the time in advance, a scheduled job guarantees the slot to the minute.

The basis is simple: a €40 pickup charge, then €2.63 per kilometre beyond the first ten, plus €10 for the dedicated vehicle assigned to your shipment alone. The online calculator measures the real road distance and applies that rate card. Tolls and fuel are already included.

The figure shown online is an honest estimate based on the most direct route. On arrival, the certified taximeter is the reference. In practice the gap is small; when there is one, it comes from a detour requested en route, waiting time on site or a regulated hourly surcharge.

Yes, across Western Europe. Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan, Barcelona and London are regular routes. For Switzerland and the United Kingdom, customs paperwork — ATA carnet, pro forma invoice, export declaration — is supplied by the sender and presented by us at the border post.

Yes, and it is one of the cases where a dedicated taxi makes the most sense: your shipment never leaves the cabin and passes through no depot. For a high declared value, tell us when booking so an ad valorem insurance extension is arranged before departure.

In a saloon, the equivalent of three suitcases: envelopes, cartons, garment bags, medium-sized parts. In a Mercedes V-Class van, up to eight or ten bulky items, panels, flight cases or garment bags carried flat. Beyond that it is no longer a taxi fare but a charter, and we will say so plainly.

Always, at no extra cost. As soon as the hand-over is done you receive a time-stamped photo of the parcel in the recipient's hands, the name of the person who took delivery and the GPS position of the delivery point. The receipt follows by e-mail.

Yes, without interruption. Most aviation and hospital jobs actually leave outside business hours. Night, Sunday and public-holiday surcharges are those set by the prefectoral order and appear on the meter.

No. No advance payment is asked for and cancellation is free until the driver starts moving towards the pickup point. Payment is made on arrival by card, in cash, or on invoice for business accounts.

Yes. For regular clients we open an account with a monthly consolidated invoice, a job reference carried on every run and a single point of contact. That is the standard arrangement for procurement departments, law firms and laboratories.

Anything falling under dangerous-goods regulations: explosives, pressurised gases, flammable, radioactive or category A infectious materials. We also decline live animals, full pallets and loads requiring a tail lift. In those cases a licensed freight carrier is the right answer and we will point you to one.

Around five hours twenty of driving for Lyon and three and a half hours for Brussels, barring exceptional traffic. Because the vehicle leaves as soon as the parcel is loaded, the real door-to-door time is almost always shorter than express freight, which only collects at the end of the day.

Three concrete things. The taxi licence, which opens bus lanes and allows a stop at the door. The complete absence of transfer, since the driver who loads is the driver who hands over. And the certified meter, which makes the price verifiable instead of resting on an internal scale.