Parking during lunch hours has been a pain point for me. Downtown Portland is very congested during business hours and a lot of the jobs during the day time requires driving into and out of downtown. So, here’s how I get away with not paying for parking.
Last week, I got a parking ticket trying to avoid paying for parking downtown while working a Postmates job. I’ve been good about paying for parking since. But if I can dodge paying for parking knowing there’s no potential penalty, I’d do it.
The most obvious way to keep the difference between these two time minimal, and as a result, increase your earning, is to stack jobs. But before you run off and start stacking jobs, it’s important to know which jobs you should and shouldn’t stack. All jobs are stackable, but not all stacks are practical. A good way to know which jobs are practical to stack is to look at the Pickup and Drop-off locations. I typically analyze these locations relative to each other before moving forward with a stack.
Startups like Postmates and Caviar advertise that you can make up to $25 dollars an hour. The key words in their ads are “up to”. The reality is they are promoting the earnings of their best performers under ideal conditions. There are many factors influencing couriers’ earnings. I’ve found that it’s quite difficult to make $25 an hour for an extended period of time with just one platform.
As people across the country load their cars for holiday travelling, many of them are concerned about maximizing their fuel efficiency. However, for gig economy drivers, fuel efficiency is an important part of business efficiency. As you take on busy December, here are a few quick and easy fuel efficiency hacks to improve your gas mileage and make the most of your time on the road.
Did you know people in Los Angeles spend an average of 119 hours a year stuck in traffic? People in that city get to spend more hours not getting paid to be in traffic than they do get paid to be on a two-week vacation.
People are getting vaccinated for Covid. Life is slowly getting back to normal. That means more traffic to deal with for food delivery drivers. Heavy traffic hinders you from making the most money for your time as a courier. No matter what platform you deliver food for in the gig economy, be it DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, etc., traffic is a waste of time.
There’s only a specific window where orders are flying in demand, so you want to avoid being stuck in traffic. The time saved could result in an extra delivery or two. That’s more money in your bank.
Here are four slick tips on how to move through traffic faster and make more food deliveries.
Do you want to figure out how to see the tip on DoorDash orders before you accept it?
Warning. I am about to share with you three ways to figure out the tip on a DoorDash order. One of them is legal and requires some experience and math. The other two are technically cheating and can get you in trouble with DoorDash. Ie. It can get you deactivated.
Disclosure time. This article is purely informational. Not promotional. Any action you take after reading this material and the consequences thereof, Courier Hacker will not be liable for. In other words, if you act on the information shared here (namely technique #2 and #3) and DoorDash boots you off their platform, it’s not my fault.
With the fuss of everyday life, sometimes the idea of doing grocery is impossible. It is why grocery delivery services like Shipt and Instacart have become so popular. Shipt’s customers love the application because of the fast turnaround windows and reasonable membership fees that help them save money and time. But if you want to earn some additional cash or find a full-time gig, should you think about becoming a Shipt shopper or some other grocery delivery service? Let’s see.
Do you drive for food delivery companies? Have you been on YouTube browsing for tips on how to earn money with brands like DoorDash, UberEats, Postmates? Maybe you’ve seen other drivers’ paystubs and wonder how they make $1,400 a week with food delivery apps.
Generally speaking, an average driver will bring about $500-600 a week if they do food delivery as a side hustle consistently throughout the week. Casual full-timers will probably show up at around $700-900. And then you’ll see the $1000-1200 folks. And then the $1,400-1500 guys. These are the skilled drivers in the 40-60 hours a week range. And then the crazy folks who go 80 plus hours a week and net a cool $2,000.
You’ll find a lot of YouTube videos about food delivery apps. But when you break down all the common-sense advice you find there, you’ll see a few critical skills that all the elite drivers know and understand. If you want to learn how to make $1,400 a week with food delivery apps, there are four crucial skills you need to master. And they all build upon each other.
Are you looking for a DoorDash strategy to make more money delivering food to people’s doors? You might have heard of a strategy that recently got a lot of media attention. It’s called the Decline Now strategy. Since last year this strategy has gained a lot of attention, as it has become a movement of sorts. There are critics of it and those who embrace it. Anyways it became a movement kind of, and news outlets covered it. So what is the Decline Now DoorDash Strategy? This article explains how it works as a strategy to make more money. And discuss its limitations.
Grubhub used to be the household name in food delivery. It had a 70% market share in 2016. In 2018, that was 34%. Meanwhile, Uber Eats and DoorDash were 28% and 18%, respectively. But in 2021, DoorDash is the household name when it comes to food delivery. According to Edison Trends, it commands 45% of the US food delivery market. Early this year, DoorDash became a public company on the New York Stock Exchange, valued at 72 billion.
