Must ride-hailing vehicles be commercial vehicles?

[LeLeo]

Yes, they must be commercial vehicles. Private cars used for ride-hailing need to be converted to commercial use. New requirements have been imposed on platform companies, vehicles, and drivers participating in ride-hailing operations. Private cars joining ride-hailing platforms must change their vehicle attributes to commercial vehicles. More details are as follows: 1. Method: The Ministry of Transport, in collaboration with several other ministries, has issued documents stating that vehicles and platform companies must obtain road transport operation licenses, and vehicles must also obtain commercial vehicle certificates. The regulations do not impose requirements on the attributes of commercial vehicles, but private cars used for commercial purposes must change their vehicle attributes to commercial vehicles. 2. Legal basis: According to the 'Interim Measures for the Management of Online Car-hailing Services,' applicants engaged in online car-hailing operations must have both online and offline service capabilities. Among these, the online service capability is certified once by relevant provincial authorities in the company's registered location and is valid nationwide.