Making more money with food delivery and rideshare .

Put OscarGoldman on your IGNORE list and you won't have to read his posts any more.

 

Just found this funny considering all the doom gloom threads you have created. Not busting your balls but was funny!

 

well, when you’re an adult with “6969” in your username you kind of deserve the ball busting. It’s the username version of the semi with large stacks and shifting with the jake on.

 

Or coming into a truck stop at 2am with straight pipes and the Jake on.... Just to blow your train horn because someone isn't backing up fast enough.

 

The irony wasn’t lost on me either.

 

Here’s what I found out in the past month doing rideshare.

they take up to 60% and sometimes more. have set up platform to force you to drive under one and not both.

Call you an Ic then ding you for not accepting cheap work. Further preventing you from making more money.

caping your hourly earnings to about 25-30 per hour. And this will dictate how much % they take from each ride to keep you at $30 max per hour.

making you waste your brakes and vehicle to abuse by forcing you to brake a mile ahead to slowdown slowly as to not trip off their warning.


I’m coming to the realization that brokers are wanting to implement this business model. And the ones not complying by offering better rates are going to get pushed out slowly.


Gotta make do for 7 more months and I’m done with rideshare.

 

Everyone I know that does Uber or Lyft also does door dash and other stuff ,
At the same time , usually combining trips.
If they get a Uber , they will grab a door dash going the same direction and drop it off and then pick up the Uber passenger .

 

The title of this thread saddens me because if it were true, that a pizza delivery boy made more money than an owner operator, it would further affirm that what we do is all too futile in terms of being rewarded for all the effort, hard work and sacrifice that this profession demands, especially from a position of an owner operator. The situation could be comparable to such an absurd as the one of a doctor working at an ER saying that financially he'd be better off as a certified nurse aid. I refuse to believe it and I haven't had a week yet when I would not make more that the best week of an Uber driver, or Uber Eats driver, if applied the same amount of time, devotion and effort.
It all comes down to the overhead. How forgiving it is at time like these.

 

as I’ve been between companies here for a couple weeks and had some downtime. I signed to drive Uber. And I went out the past week during evenings from 4pm to 4am taking a few breaks, eating out etc during those hours.
I shockingly made some good money. And it got my brain turning.

1. $230
2. $265
3. $212
4. $197
5. $303
6. $177
7. $216

That’s $1370 take home in a week. Now I was out there full time. I worked it pretty hard. My car gets good gas mileage so I spent $138 in gas. Put about 1580 miles on my car, but that includes deadhead miles and miles to and from my home (30 miles each way to and from zone)

Most all the riders were honestly cool, no real issues. A few smelling like weed, a few happy drunks, no really crazy people. The above includes $162 in total tips. About 1/3 of riders tip. I’ve noticed a pattern, if you strike up a conversation and the conversation kind of flows and clicks, you’re almost always getting a tip. Some riders just want to sit in silence. So I’ll usually try and start up a conversation and if they go with it I’ll keep it going. If they don’t then I let them sit in quiet. Also you just calculate in vehicle depreciation. If you did this full time, I’d say you’d have to set aside $650 a month towards your next car you’ll likely need in 2-3 years time.

long story short, if you’re in a decent demanding area, you can for sure do okay at this gig. You won’t get filthy rich, but you’ll do ok, enough to keep the bills paid.