Does Doordash & FedEx need a separate business license in every city that they do business in?

[sefnfot]

What is the name of your state?CA
Does Doordash & FedEx need a separate business license in every city or is there a statewide or countywide transportation license that covers these bug businesses?

 

[Zigner]

What is the name of your state?CA
Does Doordash & FedEx need a separate business license in every city or is there a statewide or countywide transportation license that covers these bug businesses?

Do you have an actual legal matter related to this, or are you just wondering?

 

[Taxing Matters]

What is the name of your state?CA
Does Doordash & FedEx need a separate business license in every city or is there a statewide or countywide transportation license that covers these bug businesses?

Door Dash drivers are independent contractors in most states and have to meet whatever the locality they are based in require. FedEx doesn't need a local business license simply to deliver packages to a particular city but may have local taxes to pay if the company has a FedEx office location there.

 

[zddoodah]

Does Doordash & FedEx need a separate business license in every city or is there a statewide or countywide transportation license that covers these bug businesses?

Bug businesses?

Intelligently answering this question would require reviewing thousands upon thousands of local ordinances. That said, having to get business licenses in every city in which these businesses make deliveries would make the businesses prohibitively expensive, so one could reasonably assume that the answer to the first part of your disjunctive is no.

 

[Zigner]

Bug businesses?

Intelligently answering this question would require reviewing thousands upon thousands of local ordinances. That said, having to get business licenses in every city in which these businesses make deliveries would make the businesses prohibitively expensive, so one could reasonably assume that the answer to the first part of your disjunctive is no.

The OP was sooooo close. "Bug"="big."

 

[quincy]

A friend of mine is a DoorDash driver and he helped to finance a trip out West by driving for DoorDash in the states he passed through. A DoorDash driver makes connections through the app not through the cities.

It of course helps if the drivers familiarize themselves with the local areas first so they know how to get from points A to points B without delays.

 

[LdiJ]

A friend of mine is a DoorDash driver and he helped to finance a trip out West by driving for DoorDash in the states he passed through. A DoorDash driver makes connections through the app not through the cities.

It of course helps if the drivers familiarize themselves with the local areas first so they know how to get from points A to points B without delays.

Most of them use GPS, so they don't even really need to be familiar with the area. They wouldn't know the shortcuts though or the traffic patterns.

 

[quincy]

Most of them use GPS, so they don't even really need to be familiar with the area. They wouldn't know the shortcuts though or the traffic patterns.

… or how dangerous an area might be.

It managed to work out okay for my friend, although I wouldn’t necessarily recommend others do the same.

 

[LdiJ]

… or how dangerous an area might be.

It managed to work out okay for my friend, although I wouldn’t necessarily recommend others do the same.

I didn't even think of that aspect!

 

[quincy]

I didn't even think of that aspect!

Drivers in general - DoorDash, pizza delivery, taxi service, Uber, EMTs, etc - never really know what they will find when they arrive at their destination. It sometimes can be a pretty scary world out there.

 

[sefnfot]

Do you have an actual legal matter related to this, or are you just wondering?

sorry for the delay in responding, I am at the very preliminary stages of a startup (I have identified an industry that doesn't have a doordash delivery system yet.) So I am preparing if I will need a business license for every city or if there is a general DOT license for delivery services.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

DoorDash and FedEx are two VERY different business models.

 

[quincy]

sorry for the delay in responding, I am at the very preliminary stages of a startup (I have identified an industry that doesn't have a doordash delivery system yet.) So I am preparing if I will need a business license for every city or if there is a general DOT license for delivery services.

Whether licenses or permits are needed can depend on what your business markets and what you intend to deliver.

It is at the preliminary stages when any business most needs personal advice and direction from a business law attorney. I recommend you go over your business plans with an attorney in your area.