VTC fleets in León: León station, El Bierzo, Asturias through the Huerna and Barajas along the A-6, how the cars are split between the capital and Ponferrada and how the fleet is paid

Where should a fleet keep its cars in the province of León?

At two bases, far from each other. The capital, with San Andrés del Rabanedo attached to it, holds León station by the Bernesga, with high-speed trains to Madrid via Palencia and Valladolid and to Asturias through the Pajares base tunnel, the University Healthcare Complex, which half the province comes down to, the cathedral, the university, the suburban industrial estates and La Virgen del Camino airport, with few routes; from there come the short connections of the southern towns, Sahagún, Valencia de Don Juan and La Bañeza, with the station and the hospital, and the long jobs to Barajas along the A-66 and A-6 or to Asturias through the Huerna.

Ponferrada is the other base: El Bierzo is a basin ringed by mountains, with its own hospital, Las Médulas, the Templar castle and the Camino, and for many trips it looks to Galicia before León; a car in Ponferrada does Bembibre and Villafranca, the connection with León station over the Manzanal, the referrals from El Bierzo Hospital to the capital and the returns from the Templar Night in July. Astorga, where the A-6, AP-71 and N-120 meet, is covered from either base; Laciana and Villablino, at the far end of the passes, give scarce, long jobs that the portal shows month by month before deciding whether they deserve a car there.

Which corridors reach the portal, and with what figures?

The figures are the route engine's, the ones the customer sees before booking and on which the commission is calculated. The corridor from El Bierzo to the station: Ponferrada to León station, 111 km and about 79 min, from 144,13 €, along the A-6 and over the Manzanal. The corridor of the south and the Camino: Astorga to the station, 49 km; La Bañeza to León hospital, 55 km, a job with a booked wait that fills weekday mornings. These are connections that repeat with a train or appointment time and let you position the car where it belongs the night before.

The airports are the extremes. León to Asturias airport, 174 km along the AP-66 and through the Huerna, with the toll inside the price; León to Barajas, 354 km, from 427,38 €, the job that takes a car for a whole day and is accepted with the return booked or a pickup chained in Madrid. Demand has hours and months: the station first thing and late afternoon, the hospitals in the morning, the Camino from spring to autumn, and the fiestas, Holy Week, San Juan and San Pedro in late June and San Froilán in early October, in the early hours towards the villages. Nobody publishes how many jobs there will be in a week in Astorga.

How does a job enter the portal, and how is it assigned among the cars?

The customer books on the website or in the app at a fixed price and the job enters the zone's queue with route, time and the amount for the fleet; the manager accepts it in the portal, with its own credentials, and assigns it to a specific driver or leaves it for the first free one of their own. Each driver signs in to the app with their own access, sees only their own jobs and issues from the phone, before setting off, the road sheet with the job's data and the vehicle's authorisation, from which the fields for the Ministry's register are taken. A connection with León station or a pickup in Asturias or at Barajas carries the train or flight number, and the app follows delays.

The rules are not negotiable: the fixed price agreed with the customer is what is charged, with no on-board or festival surcharges, including in Holy Week, when the processions close León's old town day and night and the pickup is set outside the routes; the time paid for is the pickup time, with the published courtesy wait; and no fleet car solicits at the station taxi rank or in the arrivals hall at La Virgen del Camino, because the service is pre-booked. In winter Pajares, the Manzanal and the Laciana passes have snow or ice: mountain jobs are confirmed the day before and, if a road is closed, the customer is told through the app rather than being let down. If the driver who accepted cannot do it in the end, the customer's price does not move and the difference comes out of the platform's commission.

How is the fleet paid, and how is the commission documented?

Into the fleet's bank account. The customer pays by card when booking, on board, or by bank transfer if it is a company on monthly invoicing, and the amount lands in the fleet's Stripe Connect account with the commission and its VAT separated in the same charge; from the Stripe account it goes to the bank on the schedule the fleet itself sets, without the money passing through the platform. The commission is the one published on the fleets page at the time of reading it; the fleet chooses between the house fare, with the lower commission, and its own, with the published one, and switches from the portal whenever it wants. No figure that might change is written here.

Every fortnight the fleet receives its statement with every job, amounts, commission withheld and net, plus the platform's commission invoice, numbered and with its VAT, ready for the accountant as a deductible expense; the portal leaves the quarter assembled, with jobs, invoices issued and commissions borne with their PDFs, although it does not file the fleet's tax returns. There is no joining fee, monthly charge or minimum; a month with no jobs costs nothing. Tips belong to the driver, with no commission. If the customer does not show or the card fails, the job performed is settled all the same, and late cancellations are paid under the published policy. Jobs ending in Madrid or Asturias are legal under a Castilla y León authorisation because the origin is in the province; pickups originating outside count towards the share the ROTT allows.

What is bidding for uncovered jobs, and what does the fleet-management software do?

Bidding is an option. When a job is left without a driver in a district, an early-hours return from the Templar Night or a station connection from Sahagún at a time when nobody is around, the fleet can leave its own pricing rule in the portal, with base, target and floor per concept, standing or by days and hours, and fine-tune it per driver within the published limits; while its drivers are online in the app, the customer sees them as one more option at that fixed price and chooses the car that arrives soonest, the cheapest or the balance. Whatever is awarded is paid with the usual commission. Without a rule, the fleet works on the house fare or its own, and nobody promises open jobs every week in Laciana.

The fleet-management software is what counts the mountain kilometres in León and what they cost: it records per vehicle the fuel, tyres, maintenance, Huerna, AP-71 and AP-6 tolls, Barajas and Asturias parking, the claims, the expiry dates for the roadworthiness test, passenger insurance, authorisation, environmental label and drivers' licences, the income from every platform the fleet works with and the split with each driver according to their agreement. It warns before anything expires and produces the month's result per car, which is what says whether the Ponferrada base pays off. It is included for partner fleets; without working with the platform it is subscribed to on its own, by the month. The platform as a tool with no commission, for a fee per licence per month, has its own page and is not on sale yet.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible · arrendamiento de vehículos con conductor (VTC): autorizaciones y Registro de Comunicaciones (consulted on 27 October 2026)
• BOE · Real Decreto-ley 13/2018, por el que se modifica la Ley 16/1987 de Ordenación de los Transportes Terrestres en materia de arrendamiento de vehículos con conductor (consulted on 27 October 2026)
• Adif · estación de León: situación y accesos (consulted on 27 October 2026)
• Aena · aeropuerto de León: destinos y compañías (consulted on 27 October 2026)