We do not own a single vehicle. Everything on Kerbside belongs to someone in Perth who would rather it earned its keep than sat in a driveway all week.
Car hire in Perth has always had a gap in it. The big operators are built around airport arrivals and corporate accounts — fine if you are flying in for three days, expensive and inflexible if you are a rideshare driver needing a car for six weeks, a sparky who needs a ute for a job in Kwinana, or someone whose car is stuck waiting on a part.
Meanwhile there are thousands of cars across the metro area doing nothing most days. Second cars. Work utes idle on weekends. Vehicles belonging to people who fly in and fly out.
Kerbside puts the two together and then gets out of the way. We are a place to find each other, nothing more. We do not take a cut, hold your deposit, or sit in the middle of your agreement.
What that means in practice: the rate an owner lists is the rate you pay them. If a listing says $62 a day, your week costs $434 unless the two of you agree otherwise. There is no line item after that.
Renting from a private owner is straightforward, but it puts more responsibility on both of you than a counter transaction does. Here is the whole shape of it.
What we do and don’t do
Treat every listing the way you would treat a private car sale. The upside is the price. The trade-off is that the checking is yours to do.
We would rather you knew this before you list a car or hire one than find out afterwards.
A standard comprehensive policy in WA generally does not cover your car while it is being hired out for money. If you are an owner, ring your insurer and ask directly before you list. If you are a driver, ask the owner what cover is in place and do not accept a vague answer. This is the single biggest risk on both sides.
Because we never hold it. If a deal goes wrong we can remove a listing and suspend an account, and we will if someone is acting in bad faith. Recovering money or settling a damage argument is between the two of you, and if it is serious, Consumer Protection WA or the police.
We check new listings before they go live to keep out obvious spam and duplicates. That is a spam filter, not an inspection. We have not seen the car, met the owner, or checked a single document.
Listing and browsing are free, and there is no commission on anything you agree. If we ever charge for something it will be optional promotion for owners who want to appear higher in results, never a fee on drivers, and never a cut of a rental.
Owners can decline any driver, for any reason or none. Drivers can walk away at inspection if the car is not what the listing said. Neither of you owes the other an explanation, and neither of you owes us anything.
A hundred and forty-odd cars across twenty-eight Perth suburbs, from a $44 hatch in the city to a touring-ready Prado in Wanneroo.