Goods - Own-account transport licence

Own-account transport of goods is transport carried out by natural or legal persons, private or public entities, whatever their nature, for their own needs, when all the following conditions are met

1. the transport is carried out by means of vehicles owned by or in usufruct of the natural or legal persons or public bodies that carry out the transport or acquired by them under reservation of ownership or leased or hired without a driver (only for vehicles with a total weight of up to 6000 kg);
2. the transport does not constitute an economically predominant activity and represents only acomplementary or ancillary activity within the framework of the principal activity of the undertaking;
3. the goods transported belong to the same persons, private or public entities or are produced and sold, borrowed, rented or are to be processed, processed and the like by them or held in storage in connection with a warehousing contract or a contract of mandate to buy or sell.
4. the responsible for driving the vehicle intended for own-account transport is:

• the licence holder, in the case of a sole proprietorship;
• the employee on the payroll;
• family employees (in the case of craft enterprises and other small entrepreneurs);
• the partners with unlimited liability in partnerships (S.N.C and S.A.S);
• the sole director in joint stock companies (S.R.L., S.C.A.R.L, S.P.A), who must be up to date with social security and welfare contributions (INPS and INAIL).

Own-account transport of goods is subdivided into:

• transport with vehicles with a total mass less than or equal to 6000 kg, which are not subject to the issuing of a licence for own account;
• transport with vehicles whose total mass exceeds 6000 kg, in which the own-account transport of goods licence is compulsory.

List of activities

A motor vehicle with an own-account licence may only transport the things or classes of things listed on the licence. Below is the list:

Compulsory documentation

When circulating, the Road Traffic Act stipulates that a driver with an own-account licence must carry the following documents

1. vehicle registration certificate or single vehicle registration and ownership document (DU);
2. valid driving licence for the corresponding vehicle category;
3. compulsory insurance certificate;
4. document proving the licence c/ownership (when the vehicle has a total laden mass of more than 6 tonnes);
5. transport document with alist of the items transported, which must be included in the licence, and the simultaneous declaration that they are the property of the licence holder. The list and the declaration are signed by the licence holder, or by his legal representative, and by the driver for the things to be taken over by him, and both need to be drawn up in two copies, one of which must be kept by the licence holder for the entire two-year period following the year of issue. The copy of the declaration kept by the licence holder must be produced whenever it is requested by officials of the Ministry of Transport or, on their instructions, by police officers, agents and officials. Below is the reference document:
   All.+1+Documento+trasporto+c+proprio.pdf 79.29 kB
6. in place of point 5. and on an occasional basis, miscellaneous items not included among those listed in the licence may be transported, provided that they are the property of the licence holder or taken on loan or lease by him and their transport is necessary for needs of an extraordinary and non-continuous nature, strictly related to the activity for which the licence was issued. Below is the reference form:
   All.+2+Trasporto+occasionale+c+proprio.pdf 66.44 kB
7. other documents required by special regulations (A.T.P. certificate, certificate of professional training for ADR transport, etc.).

The application for the issuance of the c/licence can be submitted at the counters of the Civil Motorisation Service or sent by e-mail to merci@provincia.tn.it accompanied by the necessary documentation, which varies depending on the case.

The licence is issued upon simple presentation of the application in which the persons driving the vehicles (with a category C or CE licence) and the things or classes of things to be transported must be indicated in cases where

1. the vehicle has a payload not exceeding 3 tonnes;
2. it is a case of replacing a vehicle already licensed with another with the same or a lower overall mass
3. you are requesting an extension of the classes of goods to be transported;
4. there is a request for a change of registered office, change of company name, transformation and/or merger of the undertaking holding the licence.

In all other cases, the issue of the licence is subject to the presentation of documentation proving that the applicant's needs, or the activity carried out, justify the use of the vehicle of the type and capacity indicated.

To this end, it is necessary to produce a declaration by the applicant of the extent of the economic activity carried out in the previous year, specifying: the volume of business, the quantity and importance of goods imported and exported, the operating costs and partial costs relating only to own-account transport activity already incurred or expected in relation to the new vehicles for which the licence is requested, as well as those relating to any road haulage activity for third parties. The data had to correspond to the results of the accounting documents.
The application must, in any case, contain an indication of the persons driving the vehicles (with a category C or EC licence) and a list of the things or classes of things to be transported.