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Anyone ever drove for UberEats/Grubhub?

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Just moved and currently looking for a job. Figured I can make a bit of money on the side with the above services. Has anyone ever driven for them? Looking for experiences, advice, what to expect, etc...

 

I'm in a college town and figured I would be busy and make a decent few bucks until I find a permanent job.

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R0CKnR0LLA Proficient

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It's a ripoff and you shouldn't do it.

On 9/25/2018 at 10:10 AM, Anybodyhome said:

Check this out:

https://therideshareguy.com/whats-it-really-like-to-deliver-food-for-ubereats/

So this guy makes $187.86, doesn't seem too bad right? Well there's a $50 incentive that AFAIK you can't count on consistently. Then there's your automobile costs, which the true cost is estimated at 60.8 cents per mile but that's for normal average driving. Delivery driving is one of the worst things you can do to a car, almost all city miles with constantly turning your car on and off. Estimating just a 25% increase in costs (which is conservative) gives you 76 cents a mile. For the 106 miles that guy drive that's $80.56 in operating costs.

Subtract the unreliable incentive and operating costs means you're making $54 over 9 hours, or $6 an hour. Less than minimum wage while working a job that's statistically more dangerous job than being a police officer. Have fun with that.

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2 minutes ago, R0CKnR0LLA said:

It's a ripoff and you shouldn't do it.

So this guy makes $187.86, doesn't seem too bad right? Well there's a $50 incentive that AFAIK you can't count on consistently. Then there's your automobile costs, which the true cost is estimated at 60.8 cents per mile but that's for normal average driving. Delivery driving is one of the worst things you can do to a car, almost all city miles with constantly turning your car on and off. Estimating just a 25% increase in costs (which is conservative) gives you 76 cents a mile. For the 106 miles that guy drive that's $80.56 in operating costs.

Subtract the unreliable incentive and operating costs means you're making $54 over 9 hours, or $6 an hour. Less than minimum wage while working a job that's statistically more dangerous job than being a police officer. Have fun with that.

I certainly don't do it and I'm not sure I would under the most dire of circumstances, but I was simply providing a perspective I read.

If I were to drive for a living, it would probably be something like an airport car service or limo, where you can make money driving someone else's vehicle.

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On 10/23/2018 at 11:38 AM, cookinwithgas said:

I live in Steele Creek where every available inch of land is currently occupied or under development, yet UberEats does not deliver to my house. I used it last spring when I was with my sister in CA and it was a great service.

Have you tried one of the 15 other delivery options? 

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Here's how to do it right.

Friday nights/Saturday nights from 12am-4am

Uber and lyft, near bars. Panther games as well. Bad side is drunk people but also good as they'll tip well if you get along with them which is easy. I personally did this and made $300-$400 a weekend.

These 'side' jobs have to be done right. You have to actually look at the market and find sweet spots. For example my buddy goes on a two hour lunch break downtown Charlotte for food delivery during lunch time. So think about it, driving buisnesses, people, large groups their lunch less than a mile away. usually comes up with at least $100 in pocket.

Just a matter of finding the niche, and if you want to go all out buy a small gas friendly car driven solely for the purpose of these side jobs.

As far as smaller towns, I'd agree it's just not worth it.

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It came to my house! So I tried it with Nothing but Noodles, it was insanely fast and packaged correctly. It's just of course pricey if you want good food delivered to you because you are lazy.

I live in a rural area down a long dark gravel driveway and I was considering if the young lady delivering the food was nervous about that at all.

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