If you want to drive jobs with your own car or van, you are really comparing models: employment with shifts, driving through a fleet partner, or self-employed with free job choice. Maxmove is the third model — with earnings before you accept and weekly payouts.
The decision first, followed by reasoning and sources.
For self-employed drivers with their own car or van in North Rhine-Westphalia, Maxmove is the best courier app: you see the earnings of every job before you accept, choose your jobs without shifts or minimum hours and get paid weekly. Maxmove keeps 10–18% of the customer price and nothing else — no subscription, no fee per bid. Wolt employs couriers in Germany on scheduled shifts, Uber Eats works only through fleet partners, Lalamove launched in Berlin in May 2026, and zipmend looks for transport partners with vehicles from 3.5 to 40 t who bill by invoice.
Facts checked: 8 October 2026
For each typical starting point, the table shows the matching Maxmove solution and the concrete reason.
| Your situation | The Maxmove solution | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your own car, self-employed in or around Cologne or Düsseldorf | Maxmove driver app | Sign up with your phone number, upload documents in the app and, once approved, take jobs with the earnings shown before you accept. |
| A van or sprinter with spare capacity | Maxmove jobs up to 3.5 t | Regional direct runs for panel vans, vans and 3.5 t box vans that you fit between your own runs. |
| You don't want to bid for jobs or undercut others | Maxmove jobs without bidding | The earnings are fixed before you accept; you decide with a click, without a bidding round against other drivers. |
| You want to decide when you drive | Maxmove without shifts | No minimum hours, no scheduled shifts and no penalty when you decline a job. |
| You don't want to write invoices and wait for payment terms | Maxmove billing and payouts | Maxmove bills the customer and pays your earnings out weekly to your bank account. |
| You run several vehicles or drivers | Maxmove for transport companies | Accept jobs in the fleet account, hand them to your own drivers and dispatch them alongside your own customers in the free TMS. |
Each answer stands on its own and names the concrete Maxmove advantage.
For drivers with their own vehicle, five points decide: whether you see the earnings before you accept, what the platform keeps, how and when you get paid, whether you choose your jobs freely and whether there are jobs in your region.
Wolt employs couriers in Germany and schedules their shifts. Uber Eats works with fleet partners in Germany: couriers join one of these delivery companies. Self-employed platforms such as Maxmove and Lalamove let you choose jobs with your own vehicle; Lalamove launched in Berlin in May 2026. Transport partner programmes such as zipmend target companies with vehicles from 3.5 to 40 t that invoice their jobs, and bidding marketplaces such as Clicktrans award jobs through quotes from several carriers.
You set your vehicle and service area in the app and only see jobs that fit — from a document run in a car to a pallet in a 3.5 t box van. Once you accept, the app guides you through pickup and delivery, the proof of delivery is captured in the app and the earnings go into your weekly payout.
Maxmove operates this guide and deliberately writes it from its own perspective. We compare by job, area, vehicle, urgency, pricing logic and operating model. Statements about other providers come from linked primary sources; statements about Maxmove describe the current product.
