Check that you fill in all the following conditions:

• Have a driving license (category B) for 3 years minimum (or 2 years if you have driven accompanied)
• Have a criminal record exempt from certain convictions on the bulletin n°2
• Have passed a medical examination that resulted in a positive medical opinion approving that you can practice this profession (cerfa no. 14880). Only a licensed physician can do this check. He's not your primary care physician. You can find the list of licensed doctors on the website of your prefecture.
• Have followed a level 1 civic prevention and relief training (for less than 2 years).

The prefecture checks all these documents and certificates when applying for a professional card.

Anticipating difficulties

• Prepare for your future job :
  
  • You can follow a training to learn about entrepreneurship
  • Learn about management and accounting

These courses are optional, but recommended for your success.

• Plan the difficulties
  
  • Make a financial reserve to deal with unforeseen events
  • Prepare for the steady pace of work

Make a business plan

It is advisable to make a business plan of your future company.

It's a essential file for convincing the banks to support you.

It's also a management tool over the first three years. We explain how to develop it.

You can also be accompanied by your CMA: titleContent.

1st possibility: be a craftsman

Characteristics of your status as a craftsman

As a craftsman, you are independent.

Your benefits come back to you entirely.

You must be owner of your license (either purchased or obtained free of charge).

You are responsible for your vehicle, its maintenance and insurance.

Creating your company

You must build your company :

1. For this, you must first choose the legal form of your company.
   
   • If you go it alone: micro-entrepreneur, EI, EURL or SASU
   • If you want to set up a business with partners: SARL or SAS
2. Then you have to register your company at RNE: titleContent.

Window of company formalities

The declarant shall create a personal account. Then he must click on the column “ Company ” and then on “File a company formality”. One interactive online form of 8 pages is proposed to him; he must fill it step by step. Instructions for use are available on this Single Window website.

The Chamber of Trades and Crafts (CMA) of each region is the interlocutor of the craftsmen.

The advisers of the CMA: titleContent are there for the accompany and the advisor in their endeavors.

They can be reached by telephone or by mail :

2nd possibility: be a license tenant

You must rent a license with a Specialized company in the rental of taxi licenses.

You sign one lease management agreement with the company.

The minimum contract duration is 1 year.

You have to pay a monthly rent for the license.

The rent price depends on the rental company.

Characteristics of your status

You are an independent contractor.

It is the rental company that must maintain your car.

You collect all of your revenue.

You are not covered by unemployment insurance if you stop working.

Creating your company

You must build your company :

1. For this, you must first choose the legal form of your company.
   
   • If you go it alone (micro-entrepreneur, EI, EURL or SASU)
   • If you wish to set up a business with partners (SARL or SAS)
2. Then you have to declare your craftsman activity
3. You must register your company at RNE: titleContent.

3rd possibility: be an employee

You can practice the trade by being an employee of a company of taxis.

You are bound by an employment contract to your employer.

You do not have a license of taxi personally.

You perceive a fixed salary.

You also receive a percentage of your monthly sales on your meter.

What training?

Training to become a taxi driver is highly recommended to get a chance to pass the exam.

It is not mandatory.

Training can last between 50 hours and 300 hours The duration varies depending on the training center and the place where you perform it.

The content of the training is intended to prepare for the exam.

It trains you in theoretical written tests (regulations) and practical tests (driving, behavior, etc.).

Where to find taxi training?

You find the list of approved training centers on the website of your prefecture.

France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) offers a search tool to find the training which suits you :

Where can I find my taxi driver training?

How much does the training cost?

It can cost between €400 and €3,000 The price varies according to the training center and the number of hours.

It is payable either online at the training center or on site.

You can use your personal training account.

You can get aid for its financing seeking advice from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi).

Passing the exam allows you to obtain the business card.

How do I register for the exam?

You must register on the website of the CMA: titleContent of your region.

What are the trials?

The event takes place in 2 parts :

1. Knowledge Tests
   
   • Management company and accounting
   • Regulation on taxi activity
   • Regulations on gender-based offenses and/or sexual and on discrimination (definition, prevention, penalties incurred)
   • Rules of road safety
   • Mastery of French and theEnglish
2. Practical test :
   
   • 20-minute route of driving as a taxi driver. You must prepare it, secure it (anticipate difficulties, work, facilitate the journey) and carry it out.
   • The examiner then checks the following:
     
     • Your knowledge on the territory traveled (geographical, cultural, tourist)
     • Your ability to welcome a customer
     • Your ability to bill a customer and to use the credit card terminal

When you succeed the exam, you receive a certificate from the CMA: titleContent.

If you pass the exam, you are entitled to your professional card.

It pays off.

Its cost is about €60, payable online on the simplified procedures.

To receive your card, you must ask for it to your prefecture.

There is no time limit imposed between passing the exam and applying for a professional card. However, if the application comes more than 5 years after passing the exam, you must provide a certificate of continuing education dating back less than 5 years.

You must fill out a form, available on the website of simplified procedures.

Application for a professional taxi driver card

Documents to be provided for your card application

You must send the Prefecture copies of the following documents:

• Identity card (CNI: titleContent) front/back or passport
• Valid driving license
• Certificate of passing the exam
• Positive medical opinion (cerfa no. 14880)
• 2 recent photos

In the event of a violation of the regulations applicable to the profession by the driver of a taxi, the administrative authority may give him a warning or withdraw his professional card temporarily or permanently.

You wish to practice in a different department from the one where you took the exam.

This extension is called the interdepartmental mobility.

Perform a mandatory internship

To be entitled to practice in another department, you must pass a continuing education course.

It lasts 2 p.m. (or 35 hours in Paris).

The purpose of the internship is to acquire knowledge about the 2 items following:

• New geographical, cultural and tourist territory
• Local regulation

You find the list of approved training centers on the website of your prefecture.

Apply for a new business card

If you validate the internship, you receive a attestation.

You must make a request of new map on which are indicated the new departments where you can practice.

To do this, you must fill out a mobility application form.

This new map is fee-based.

Its cost is about €60, payable online on the website of the simplified procedures.

Mobility request for the taxi driver's business card

The taxi license is officially called parking authorization (ADS).

More commonly, we talk about plate.

She is mandatory for all taxis.

Every taxi driver must have an ADS associated with his vehicle to drive.

The perimeter of the territory covered by the ADS must be registered in the taximeter of the vehicle.

Only the taxi driver holding an ADS has the right to pick up customers who hail him on the street, on the public road (principle of marauding).

The craftsman can obtain the license (or ADS) of 3 waysdifferent:

• By asking her at her town hall for free
• By buying it from another taxi
• By renting it to a specialized company

After obtaining, the ADS is renewed automatically without any procedure to be carried out.

It may be withdrawn by the administrative authority in certain cases (violation of the regulations applicable to the driver, death, medical incapacity) or at the initiative of its holder.

How long is it valid?

Only licenses obtained free of charge after 1^er october 2014 are valid 5 years and renewable.

The request for renewal a license obtained free of charge must be made 3 months before the end of validity.

National Framework Convention

So-called taxis contracted carry out the seated transport of sick or medicalized persons.

In application of the national framework convention, the taxi signs an agreement with the Cnam: titleContent, on the model set out in the annex to the decision of 13 february 2025.

This agreement defines the fares for this type of journey and the conditions of carriage.

Taxis have until 30 September 2025 to implement the national framework convention adopted on 13 May 2025, which includes new pricing.

Its period of validity is 5 years.

Shared transport of patients insured by social security

The taxi that transports sick people must offer them a shared transport with one or more other customers.

This transport may concern the outward journey, the return journey or both.

List of care concerned

THEprescription written by the physician must specify that the patient's medical condition is compatible with shared transport.

The list of treatments medical devices that can be shared transport is:

• Systemic drug treatments for cancer
• Radiotherapy sessions
• Treatment sessions of chronic renal failure by the practice of extrarenal purification
• Rehabilitation medical care
• All sessions, treatment or care in the context of a day hospitalization.

Conditions of carriage

The taxi must respect the transport conditions following:

• Do not exceed an additional 10 km of detour caused by carrying one or more other passengers
• Stay within a maximum of 30 km of the destination
• Do not exceed 45 minutes in total waiting time for the patient, corresponding to the additional time caused by shared transport
• Notify a traveler's refusal to carry out shared transport on his invoice or proof of transport
• In case of refusal of shared transport by the patient, ask him the direct payment of the race.

Vehicle characteristics

Your professional vehicle must have 9 seats maximum (driver included).

It shall contain the following elements:

• Rectangle with roof lighting. The mention "taxi" must be included. The name of the municipality where you practice must be entered. It lights up in green when the taxi is free, in red when it is busy.
• Taximeter called counter which measures the time of the race and the number of kilometers traveled
• Smartphone with an internet connection and application driver approved by the taxi.
• Terminal electronic payment system (bank card terminal)
• Printer connected to the counter to give a note of the race to the customer
• Plate attached to the vehicle and visible from the outside indicating the license number, i.e. the number of theparking authorization (ADS) and the department or departments where the driver is authorized to practice.

Know the regulated rates

You need to know your obligations as a taxi driver, including regulated tariffs.

Insure your vehicle and your business

Consider insuring your vehicle as a professional vehicle and take out insurance for your business.

This is insurance."professional civil liability" which you can request from all insurers.

Technical inspection

The roadworthiness test is mandatory the 1^re year of your activity, then 1 time per year.

He's at your initiative, you don't get any reminders.

Prior booking is defined by opposition the system of marauding in which the customer stalks the taxi in the street after being able to visually see that it was free.

Prior booking is characterized by the making an appointment for a given day and hour.

This reservation is made at a central reservation office or a taxi stand by phone, fax or email.

There is, thus, no contact between the taxi and the customer before the service.

Prior booking is mandatory if the taxi driver does not have a license (ADS) or if he wishes to take a race in outside the territorial jurisdiction of its ADS.

The supporting document prior reservation is mandatory. It proves in case of control by an agent, that any ride is made following the reservation of a customer.

This evidence may be submitted to thescreening officer on one electronic medium or paper.

The supporting document must include all information following:

• Number of the taxi operator's parking permit
• Name or business name and contact details of the business operating a taxi
• Unique identification number (Siren) of the operator issued following registration in the National company Register (RNE) via the company Formalities Window
• Name and telephone number of the customer requesting a particular public transport service for persons for consideration 
• Date and time of the prior reservation made by the customer
• Date and time of pick-up desired by the customer
• Pick-up location indicated by the customer.

A “relay taxi” is a replacement vehicle for the usual taxi vehicle.

The relay taxi is used only in a temporary.

It can be used in case the usual taxi undergoes one of the following events:

• Mechanical fixed asset
• Failure or accident
• Theft of vehicle or special equipment.

The list relay taxis available in each department can be consulted online on a directory, on the site MyADS.

Find a replacement taxi-relay vehicle in your department

Renewal of the business card

You should consider renewing your business card.

It is valid 5 years.

3 months before at the end of validity, you must perform a continuing education.

The training lasts 2 days (14 hours).

If you validate the training, you receive a attestation.

You find the list of approved training centers on the website of your prefecture.

Technical inspection of the vehicle

You must carry out the technical inspection of your vehicle 1 time per year.

This approach must be made of your own initiative.

Electronic Marauding

The marauding electronic is mandatory since December 2021.

You must choose a “driver” application approved by the government start-up called le.taxi..

You must connect at availability register taxis, called: the taxi..

Taxi availability register: le.taxi

You can consult the guide for the driver to use this register.