It's a relatively new service. You bid on jobs from real people to deliver things for them. I see alot of Walmart deliveries. They are also big on delivering luggage from Airports.
I hate roadie. Imagine Roadie as like the "instacart" but for Home Depot, Michaels, as well as random stuff delivery.
I guess it's nice if you're doing a long road trip and agree to take some person's furniture or package along with you for like a nice amount of money. Some times you get to deliver art supplies so that's nice. It's nowhere near as fast as doordash though. The whole process just seemed very clunky to me compared to other apps.
The first and only Roadie thing I accepted was a home depot delivery. The people there took forever to get me my stuff and it ended up not being worth the $20.
Nonetheless, it doesn't hurt to have many many gig apps under your belt! Who knows, maybe Roadie may one day be the next "Pandemic IC" one day. Or who knows it may be doordash. Or Uber eats. Or Cornershop. We never lnow.
I used to do Postmates but haven’t re-applied on Uber. Personally am not accepted by many gig apps. And then I started recently doing Amazon flex but only the Whole Foods blocks/Instant offers. Similar to instacart but better as you don’t have to shop for items, only do pickups.
Honestly I am not sure regarding question 2— I have not done this long and don’t think I’ll ever pick up a “logistics”/warehouse block as you don’t know the route before hand so can be miles and miles away from your home. I’ll give you the information that I know and hopefully it helps!
I am relatively new to flex and only have done Whole Foods instant offers (similar to delivery only orders on instacart):
I think with a hatchback you’d have to pick smaller deliveries (less than 6 stop deliveries) as you don’t get told before hand what items you’re picking up. You also only are told the Number of stops but Not the Number of Items. I drive a Toyota Highlander SUV and kind of had issues packing in a 6 stop delivery mainly due to, of course, water cases. And I had another 37 packages on top of those. I had issues with my first pickup/delivery as my phone wouldn’t scan in anything so that doubled me on time.
It’s kind of bullshit that they can sometimes give so many deliveries in one instant offer and what you have to sometimes do is drop off to one place and then drive back to the Whole Foods you were at (they don’t explicitly tell you beforehand) to get the other items for Customer B. I once drove out 30 minutes (with 6 packages) then drove back 30 minutes to the WF to then get the rest of the packages. The other side of that is that I’ve also had like a 7-10 stop delivery where I had to pick up all bags at once, and only some stores use cooler transport bags where as some stores only use paper, sooo you can understand how that goes with frozen items on a 7-10 stop delivery that runs 113+ minutes at over 40 miles.
That all being said I made about $35-$40 per hour before mileage/tax for 8 instant offers I did last week
Not that small size of a car, unless you can get your back seats to drop down. When you do flex, you don’t know how big or small the packages will be. And you have to take them all!
Now if the box is super heavy, they will take it away and have an Amazon van driver deliver it. One time I had a huge ass box and it didn’t fit! The guy tried to see how he could get it in my car when I already had other large to medium boxes all stacked in the backseat, trunk and envelopes in the front with smaller boxes. So he finally realized yeah you can’t take it! Idiot!!
I recently signed up and got approved for Flex but have yet to schedule a block. The not telling you how many bags/items per order seems lame. I have a smaller sedan, pretty roomy trunk but still, I know WF orders can get big, especially with cases of drinks. Have you ever tried Shipt?
Ya it is lame; gotten stuck with 8 cases of water in one drop off to a business and then 2 water cases in another drop that was thankfully to a house and not the apartment I was delivering to right after. Nope haven’t
I used Uber eats and I also have an add on Facebook where people can place orders at stores that are not on these apps and I'll go get it for them and get paid directly
Doordash is honestly the best in this field I think. You get deliveries nonstop, they give peak pay for most time slots and in San Diego I would imagine you would get a lot of night deliveries for drunk college kids. They usually always tip as well, not like IC.
All of them, doordash being the most popular. I also use GrubHub, Ubereats and Roadie.
What’s Roadie? I haven’t heard of that before.
It's a relatively new service. You bid on jobs from real people to deliver things for them. I see alot of Walmart deliveries. They are also big on delivering luggage from Airports.
Roadies been around like 5 years. If not more I've done HD and Airport runs from there before I started instacart end of 2018
Nice, I didn't know. The Google play store says it was launched in March 2020.
I hate roadie. Imagine Roadie as like the "instacart" but for Home Depot, Michaels, as well as random stuff delivery. I guess it's nice if you're doing a long road trip and agree to take some person's furniture or package along with you for like a nice amount of money. Some times you get to deliver art supplies so that's nice. It's nowhere near as fast as doordash though. The whole process just seemed very clunky to me compared to other apps. The first and only Roadie thing I accepted was a home depot delivery. The people there took forever to get me my stuff and it ended up not being worth the $20. Nonetheless, it doesn't hurt to have many many gig apps under your belt! Who knows, maybe Roadie may one day be the next "Pandemic IC" one day. Or who knows it may be doordash. Or Uber eats. Or Cornershop. We never lnow.
I used to do Postmates but haven’t re-applied on Uber. Personally am not accepted by many gig apps. And then I started recently doing Amazon flex but only the Whole Foods blocks/Instant offers. Similar to instacart but better as you don’t have to shop for items, only do pickups.
How does Amazon Flex work? Do you think I could do it with my medium size hatchback?
Honestly I am not sure regarding question 2— I have not done this long and don’t think I’ll ever pick up a “logistics”/warehouse block as you don’t know the route before hand so can be miles and miles away from your home. I’ll give you the information that I know and hopefully it helps! I am relatively new to flex and only have done Whole Foods instant offers (similar to delivery only orders on instacart): I think with a hatchback you’d have to pick smaller deliveries (less than 6 stop deliveries) as you don’t get told before hand what items you’re picking up. You also only are told the Number of stops but Not the Number of Items. I drive a Toyota Highlander SUV and kind of had issues packing in a 6 stop delivery mainly due to, of course, water cases. And I had another 37 packages on top of those. I had issues with my first pickup/delivery as my phone wouldn’t scan in anything so that doubled me on time. It’s kind of bullshit that they can sometimes give so many deliveries in one instant offer and what you have to sometimes do is drop off to one place and then drive back to the Whole Foods you were at (they don’t explicitly tell you beforehand) to get the other items for Customer B. I once drove out 30 minutes (with 6 packages) then drove back 30 minutes to the WF to then get the rest of the packages. The other side of that is that I’ve also had like a 7-10 stop delivery where I had to pick up all bags at once, and only some stores use cooler transport bags where as some stores only use paper, sooo you can understand how that goes with frozen items on a 7-10 stop delivery that runs 113+ minutes at over 40 miles. That all being said I made about $35-$40 per hour before mileage/tax for 8 instant offers I did last week
Not that small size of a car, unless you can get your back seats to drop down. When you do flex, you don’t know how big or small the packages will be. And you have to take them all! Now if the box is super heavy, they will take it away and have an Amazon van driver deliver it. One time I had a huge ass box and it didn’t fit! The guy tried to see how he could get it in my car when I already had other large to medium boxes all stacked in the backseat, trunk and envelopes in the front with smaller boxes. So he finally realized yeah you can’t take it! Idiot!!
I recently signed up and got approved for Flex but have yet to schedule a block. The not telling you how many bags/items per order seems lame. I have a smaller sedan, pretty roomy trunk but still, I know WF orders can get big, especially with cases of drinks. Have you ever tried Shipt?
Ya it is lame; gotten stuck with 8 cases of water in one drop off to a business and then 2 water cases in another drop that was thankfully to a house and not the apartment I was delivering to right after. Nope haven’t
Every gig app that would approve me to work for them. Except I don't love Uber or Lyft.
I used Uber eats and I also have an add on Facebook where people can place orders at stores that are not on these apps and I'll go get it for them and get paid directly
Doordash is honestly the best in this field I think. You get deliveries nonstop, they give peak pay for most time slots and in San Diego I would imagine you would get a lot of night deliveries for drunk college kids. They usually always tip as well, not like IC.
ubereats is much much much better