Motorised road freight transport including by electric vehicles.
Use this mapping when the enterprise earns revenue by moving goods by road. Passenger transport and courier delivery are different activities.
A goods transport company is engaged in moving cargo by road rather than transporting passengers. NIC 492301 is a relevant code to review where trucks, lorries or other goods vehicles are used to carry freight for customers. It can fit a small commercial vehicle operator, trucking firm or fleet business when road freight movement is the principal source of revenue.
The cargo can vary widely: industrial goods, packaged products, raw materials, machinery, retail stock or other commercial consignments. The type of goods does not necessarily change the main transport activity. What matters is that the enterprise is paid to move freight from one location to another by road.
A company operating vehicles and carrying goods performs road freight transport. A logistics broker, freight forwarder or digital platform that mainly arranges transport may have an intermediary or support activity instead. Some logistics companies do both. In those cases, identify whether most revenue and operational responsibility come from actual carriage or from arranging third-party carriers.
Courier businesses generally handle letters, parcels and packages through collection and delivery networks. Road freight companies usually move larger commercial consignments or loads. The boundary can depend on the operating model, but a parcel-delivery network should not automatically use a trucking code simply because vans or trucks are involved.
A carrier may own vehicles, lease them or engage them under another permitted model. NIC classification follows economic activity, not financing structure. Similarly, a company transporting only its own goods as an internal function may not have transport as its separate principal business because it is not selling freight service to outside customers.
Warehousing can also become a distinct activity. If the company earns meaningful revenue from storing customer goods in a warehouse as well as transporting them, warehousing may need an additional NIC code.
Before registration, describe whether the establishment is a carrier, courier, warehouse operator or logistics intermediary. These businesses may appear similar to customers but perform different economic functions. Match the principal function to the NIC edition requested by the authority.
Use for taxi/cab passenger transport.
NIC 532099 Other courier activities n.e.c.Use for other courier activities.
NIC 521001 Warehousing and storage, refrigerated (cold storage) excluding liquids and gasUse for warehousing and cold storage.
For a typical goods transport company, the primary NIC 2025 code to investigate is 492301 - Motorised road freight transport including by e- vehicles.
Use this page as a shortlist and then verify the final code against the linked official NIC page. NIC describes the economic activity. It does not issue a licence, replace GST/HSN/SAC classification, or guarantee approval in Udyam, MCA or any regulated filing.
Choose the NIC code that matches the principal activity, usually the activity that generates the largest share of revenue or best describes the entity being registered.