Vehicle partners
Put your idle car on the Shift fleet.
You own it. We run it. Your car goes to work with vetted couriers, we handle the renter, the billing and the day to day, and you take 65–70% of what it rents for.
Takes two minutes. No cost to list, and nothing is committed until there is a written lease you have signed.
What we take on
- Finding and vetting the renter
- Rental agreements and payments
- Cleaning, servicing and turnarounds
- GPS and immobilizer, fitted at our cost
What that works out to
What sort of car is it?
Corolla, Civic, Sentra. Efficient cars rent for more because they earn a courier more, and that difference is yours.
Your share is of what the car rents for — not of a smaller number after our costs. No listing fee and no signup cost. Servicing your car needs is billed to you separately and is not taken out of this percentage; what that covers is below. Move the slider to see your own assumption: this is arithmetic on our published rate, not a projection of what your car will do.
List your car
Tell us what you have. We'll come back with what it could earn and when we could take it on. Want the detail first? The deal, the rates and what we put into your car are below.
The deal
Your share
everyday rentals 65%, gig rentals 70% of what the car rents for, on the Turnkey tier — a share of gross, not of a smaller number after our costs. A payoff deal is 10 points lower.
Whose car it is
Yours. You keep the title, and after 90 days you can take it back any time on two weeks' notice. Payoff assistance is the one exception — that is a sale, and the section below says so plainly.
Your commitment
90 days, then month to month. A fleet vehicle has to be somewhere a courier can count on, so we ask you to leave it on long enough for that to be true — after which there is no term to run out.
What we run
Driver vetting, rental agreements, payments, scheduling and turnarounds. You don't deal with renters, and you don't chase anyone for money.
What your car rents for
Rates scale with how long a driver commits, not with the hour of the day. A courier booking a weekend pays the most; one taking it for a month pays the least and gives you the steadiest earnings. Shown for a compact gas sedan.
Day rate
$52 /day
1-6 days
Weekly
$42 /day
7+ days
Monthly
$39 /day
30+ days
No hourly surge. A rate that moves while somebody already has the keys is a dispute waiting to happen, so the price is fixed for the length of a booking.
What we put into your car
Insurance
Every vehicle on the Shift fleet is covered by commercial policy through our insurance partner for the whole time it's with us. Your own personal policy isn't asked to do something it was never written for, and a claim doesn't land on your record. The premium is the insurance line in the breakdown above.
Servicing
We handle it; you fund it.We watch the mileage, pull the car between renters, take it to our shop and get it done — you never drop off a key. The parts and labour are billed to you, because oil, tyres and brakes are what owning a car costs and the car is yours. They come off your payout as separate, itemised lines, not out of your percentage.
Insurance, the tracker and its data plan, card processing and the day-to-day running are ours and never touch your share.
If it breaks down
That part stays yours.We don't offer a warranty or breakdown cover. The engine, gearbox, electrics and everything mechanical are your responsibility, and if the car fails mid-rental we arrange the recovery but the tow and the repair are billed to you.
The exception is a renter causing it — running it dry, ignoring a warning light, wrong fuel. If an independent evaluation shows that, it's on us. On a car doing rental miles it's worth checking what your warranty still covers before you list.
If it gets damaged
We go after the renter’s deposit first, then the renter, then our policy. Your share of a claim is the $1,500 deductible and nothing above it — even if the renter vanishes.
If it's written off
You're paid what the car was worth on the open market at the moment of loss — not what you paid, and not what you owe. If you owe your lender more than the car is worth, that difference is yours.Nothing here covers it, so if your car is financed it's worth asking your lender about gap insurance.
Tracking and security
GPS and a starter immobilizer, hardware and install paid for by us, or reimbursed if you'd rather use your own shop. GPS means you can see where your car is, and that a vehicle which stops coming back gets found — it is the reason we can hand keys to someone you have never met.
It cannot stop a moving car
The relay interrupts the starter circuit only. It can stop the engine being cranked once the car is already parked and off. It does not touch ignition or fuel, and it has no effect whatsoever on a vehicle that is running or in motion. We won't fit a system that can.
It comes out clean
It's hardwired, and it's removed without damage when the lease ends. That obligation is written into the partner agreement, not left as a promise, so the car goes back to you the way it came.
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Still paying the car off?
Most auto loans don't allow a financed car to be leased commercially, and that stops a lot of good vehicles before they start. So we deal with the loan itself rather than working around it — the balance is cleared outright and the lien comes off.
Read this part twice
A payoff is a sale, not a loan. We clear the balance and the title comes to us — the car becomes ours. You keep it, you manage it day to day, and you take 60% of what it rents for, for as long as it runs.
What you give up is the right to take it back, because the money that cleared your loan is repaid out of the 10 points over time. If you want to keep the title, list it the ordinary way instead — that offer is still open.
Why not just cover the payments
Because it fixes nothing. The lien stays on the title, so your lender still has to agree to the car being used commercially — the exact obstacle we started with. Clearing the balance removes it.
What happens next
Pick "still financed" on the form and tell us who holds the loan and roughly what's left. Every case is looked at individually, and we don't ask for your account number — nobody needs that to work out whether a deal makes sense.