I Delivered Food for UberEats for a Week! | Worth it in 2024?

What an interesting week! I hope you all enjoyed coming along with me to deliver delicious foods to great people!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - 1:11 Prefacing the Video (why?)
1:12 - 1:34 wink wink, nudge nudge
1:35 - 9:46 Entire Day 1
9:47 - 16:45 Day 2
16:46 - 20:38 Day 3
20:39 - 25:04 Day 5
25:05 - 25:43 Final Delivery
25:44 - 25:51 Total Stats after a Week
25:52 - 26:11 Outro

[@OctaneStreet]

What should we try next? 👀👀 But I hope more than anything that you guys enjoy this one! I had a list of my own pros/cons about doing this type of work but figured the video is long enough as is. Let me know if you're interested in hearing my thoughts and i'll update this comment! Much love to the Octane Street Fam and Crew Members for all your support 👊

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

I am a retired teacher. I have been using UberEats and Grubhub full time. I make about $1100 a week. This is a 5 hour morning/lunch shift. I take a three hour break. Then work 3 hours in the evening. Basically an 8-9 hour day. Not easy some days, but pays the bills.

[@OctaneStreet]

Kudos to you, and i'm glad these methods of income are able to help you make some of those crucial payments!

[@reganabel7839]

That's alot of money lol

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

I work about 56-60 hours a week. Its about 18 an hour. Not that great if you consider gas and wear and tear.

[@Just1American1966]

​@@ChadBest-ug8uo Especially since you didn't factor the cost of that, which means you're actually making less than that.

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

@@Just1American1966 Yes...I would recommend a decent model. Kia, Toyota, Honda. My Ford was a nightmare. Constant issues. My Kia has been great.

[@rg1339]

I have been with Uber 4 years and I decide what orders I am going to accept, lately I have been taking nothing under $9.00 per trip and 4-5 miles, I do less trips but more money and also I seem to be putting gas in the car less. I hope this helps, stay safe.

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

Exactly. That is smart. Taking anything less than 9 is a waste. I would rather save gas and make no money, than take a low order.

[@BLAZEPSI]

How long do you have to wait see that kind of order? Im new on this.😊

[@__red__general2369]

Some friendly words of advice, we all start somewhere! I've been doing uber eats part time for 250 deliveries or so and have earned $3100 gross. Im also in Ontario. You just have to know your area, know your timing, and try and interact with customers as often as possible and be just yourself and a cheerful/friendly vibe. For better paying orders, give yourself a thermal bag and sign up for the shop and pay orders. The thermal bag, once you confirm it with Uber, will give you bwttwr paying orders more often! Also, being new, tk the scenes with Uber pro/green after about 25-50 completed delivery's, Uber will give you a custom promotion for extra $$$. Just dont let up easy, try and try again, keep yourself busy, and earn that $!

[@OctaneStreet]

Wow, thanks for sharing such value with myself and my viewers! During this 'experiment' I conducted around 25 deliveries so 1/10th of your total but made much less than 1/10th of your gross haha. Your comment really shows that there are in fact tricks to this 'trade', and that there are many ways couriers can increase their chances of success on the platform. It makes sense now why I see almost all couriers using the thermal bags! I definitely want to try a part 2 of this experiment using a more economical vehicle, and this time utilizing some of the tips yourself and others have left in the comments. Very curious to see what a more educated attempt could look like! I appreciate your time and positivity, and wish you the best moving forward 👊

[@Podcastviralclips]

It’s all area dependent honestly, you need to find a power strip of food meaning you find an area of maybe 3 miles long that’s loaded with food and usually you’ll have the best luck. Also more higher end areas of your town where homes go for a million+ usually those are the most lazy and want their food delivered with the best tips

[@OctaneStreet]

Makes perfect sense to me, something I could definitely try to focus on more if I were to continue trying my hand at delivering for Uber. Thanks for sharing brother 👊

[@Indacouch-li8jp]

late nights are good, the fairs are low but you keep it moving doing back to back to back to back pickups and drop offs, you’re wasting time cherry picking payouts, peak hours suck because restaurants have a hard time keeping up with demand, i’d rather be have good interaction with cashiers and customers at night than standing in a crowed place smelling sweat and awkwardness of everyone trying to avoid eye contact

[@michaelshoemake9762]

Always remember… if it doesn’t pay more than $1-2 a mile, it’s not worth it.

[@Indacouch-li8jp]

@@michaelshoemake9762 these delivery apps are kind of predatory in that aspect

[@DevonRedditGD]

Back after a year! Nice to see you again octane, missed ya

[@OctaneStreet]

Haha yessir, and hoping this time it's for good 🙌 But thank you brother I appreciate you 👊

[@shannonsmith1018]

Don’t follow hot spots! Stay in the vicinity of popular restaurants but not where lots of other drivers are sitting. Try finding a area where few(2) or none are sitting. Sit and wait for the better offers. Keep in mind, customers can change/take back their tip. Don’t take orders requiring a lot of drive time/miles.

[@OctaneStreet]

Appreciate the tips! Thank you!

[@solomongrundy1467]

How can you know the number of drivers in an area?

[@Alum22]

My downtown is crazy because its near all the rich people the downside is there is horrible parking. Part of me wants to see if someone wants to partner with me they drive drop me off at restaurant I get food and they pick me up. When I do work downtown i get back to back orders to like mansions but I waste so much time parking miles away to walk to restaurant or worse apartments with only street parking.

[@CorbinWilliams]

I did this experiment in Malibu, Calabasas and Agoura Hills here in northern Los Angeles. I had basically the same experience. It worked out to like $10/hr and even less when I considered the gas I used! It felt like so much work for $10/hr and all the wear and tear on my car (2019 BMW 440i). I had planned that if it seemed to be profitable, I would consider getting a used Hyundai Elantra or similar 4 cylinder. I also tried DoorDash and other apps and they all gave the same notice that you received. Even if I had the absolute most efficient car, I couldn’t imagine making any money at all. I only tried for 2 days because by the end of day 2 I just couldn’t see it being anything good. Especially in Malibu, CA😓

[@CorbinWilliams]

Day One: Drove for 2 hours (8:20pm-10:20pm) 62 miles driven using 4 gallons of fuel appropriately Income $38.81 includes the $5 tip + another $5 tip Per hour: $19 - $12/hr in gas totals at $7/per hour made (not counting tax!!) 3 deliveries, 2 customers tipped $5 each

[@CorbinWilliams]

Day Two: Drove for 1.5 hours (5:20pm-6:50pm) 23 miles driven using 2 gallons of fuel appropriately Income $22.69 includes the $7.85 tip Per hour: $15 - $8/hr in gas totals at $7/per hour made (not counting tax!!) 3 deliveries, 1 customer tipped $7.85

[@OctaneStreet]

Very interesting to see that someone quite a ways away could have similar results. After looking through your comments though I feel you made out even better than I did! Haha, even if it's slightly. But yes, definitely based on our personal findings doing this is not profitable for us as is. Others have shared some tips in the comments though that I'd love to go back out and try 🤔

[@CorbinWilliams]

@@OctaneStreet I was wondering the same thing as you, maybe those who have been driving longer or having a “higher status” could be making more money? Or getting better payouts. I deliver a cheeseburger to passages, Malibu’s premier drug rehab. Someone had some munchies🤣🤣 My driving time was only a few hours because both days I started the experiment after my 9-5 hoping to make extra income at night and assuming dinner time would be the most profitable time to drive. The same way KZbin suggested your video to me today, I had been recommended videos and those people seemed to be making good money for Uber Eats. I have also heard that driving passengers is much more profitable but I definitely don’t want people banging up my car lol

[@Just1American1966]

I delivered pizza off and on for like thirty years (full time the first three.) My first delivery whip was also a V8-powered Detroit muscle-sled. It became 4-cylinder Toyota pickup trucks after that, the second one sticking with me for over 27 years.

[@OctaneStreet]

I'd love to hear a brief overview of how you feel the delivery industry has changed over the 3 decades that you've played a part in it!

[@Just1American1966]

@OctaneStreet I started in 1985 at Domino's Pizza, then pretty much the only real player in the market. At 18 years old, working 45-50 hours a week, I was making about $450 per week during the off season here in Florida, and about $200 more during the actual season. That was good money back when premium fuel was just about to scrape one dollar per gallon. Over the years, more places (still mostly pizza) got into the market, making it a bit harder to make quite as much. In addition, they all (including Domino's) added a lot of crap to their menus, further complicating the job. By 2007 or so, I was down to one night a week, and even that was more out of nostalgia and helping an old boss than out of necessity. By then, we were working a system that had us on minimum wage while in the store, and the lower "tip-credit" wage when on the road. Prior to then, we'd always been on regular minimum wage because we were expected to work in the store between runs. I did UberEats for a while in 2021 around my full-time job. It was okay, but never as fast-paced as any Domino's I had ever been in (though, admittedly, I had worked only the busiest nights the last several years.) Places like Domino's seem to still stay steady, and pizza delivery is still prevalent here in southern Florida, along with sandwich places like Jimmy-Johns. When I log onto UE now, I get crap offers and don't stay on long at all, pretty much just seeing what's out there. I haven't delivered an order since maybe last summer, and that was like two or three on one day only probably the whole year.

[@Russeljohnson776]

Great video!

[@OctaneStreet]

Thank you 🙌

[@hitbyGROSJEAN]

I do Uber Eats Deliveries in the Mississauga/Brampton/Oakville/Milton area and one thing I can tell you is the hotspot areas aren’t always guaranteed money. I generally look at the Earning Trends map to pinpoint and see what times and areas are good. Just because it’s orange or red doesn’t always mean it’s the best area to be for deliveries. There are days where I absolutely make $80-100 in 4 hours, however some will be dead and slow. On the slower days I recommend accepting most offers as it helps with your acceptance rate. The busier/profitable days you can decide on whether you want to take all offers or not.

[@OctaneStreet]

Damn, appreciate you sharing these tips with myself and other viewers. If I had done this longer I feel like I would have started to look into the earnings trend map in more detail but just hadn't gotten that far. It's crazy to think though that there are days where you're pulling $80+ in 4 hrs, even if it's few and far in between. Thanks again, and best of luck with your future deliveries!

[@hitbyGROSJEAN]

@@OctaneStreetI did deliveries in London (my college location) and it’s a lot more efficient because the city boundary was bunched up more closer; therefore, less mileage/gas money to spend. The GTA may be “hot” for deliveries due to population but the delivery times and mileage is greater. You have to experiment with Uber Eats for a few weeks to figure out efficient ways to deliver. Also, be patient with waiting for delivery offers lol I used to accept everything and then I realized I should’ve waited for a better offer.

[@gorilla8770]

She is why UberEats sucks these days

[@Sally-rd1gq]

So I tried signing up for DoorDash delivery and got put on a waiting due to my zip code having too many dashers. I don’t want to work where I live. I won’t make a dime. I want to sign up for Uber Eats but don’t want to make the same mistake. So does Uber Eats ask for my physical address? Or can I just put the zip I want to work at? Any information would help for anyone? I really need to make so money for bills like yesterday.

[@OctaneStreet]

I had the same issue trying to sign up for Door Dash as well as Skip the Dishes. I can't quite remember if Uber Eats requires your physical address since I created my account years ago but had only actually used it at the time of this video. You can probably try signing up and see for yourself though without following through if you want to put in a fake address. Best of luck!

[@Just1American1966]

Uber doesn't delay acceptance for "too many drivers" like DD does. If your area is saturated at any time, you just won't get many offers.

[@solomongrundy1467]

With Uber Eats you can work anywhere in America. I'll do deliveries to other cities for a courier company I work for. After I deliver, I'll sometimes turn on Uber Eats to work in that city.

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

The Zip is the key. They will ask for address, but only for their records.

[@Badboyonbeat]

Hey man, try going to Etobicoke area near queensway and islington and try going early around 8am.

[@Badboyonbeat]

You’re basically working in a cheap area where close to nobody gives tip and have high traffic, try in Etobicoke south, here will get tips and easy parking.

[@Badboyonbeat]

also sign up for shop and pay orders in uber, those kinda orders are good and you’ll make good money. And why don’t you just sign up for skipthedishes, doordash, and instacart ?

[@OctaneStreet]

Really appreciate the insight brother. If I can get access to a more economical ride I'll definitely give that area a try!

[@alexandrewillame1789]

That is very interesting! I always tought that those services like Uber Eat, are bad for people doing it, as the depreciation of their car far outweight any profit. Your experiment is very interesting. 16h36minutes online, earned 123.28$, costed approx. 108$ of gas => net earning of 15.28$ (car depreciation not included). That is approx. 0.92$/h, BEFORE car deprecitation. Average numbers suggest gas fuel is (very roughly) 1/3 of the entire cost of running a car. 108$ of gas means your approx. entire car operating cost for this run was 324$. You earned 123.28$ => You thus lost 324-123.28=200.72$ in the end. Also knowing you spent 16.5h of your life doing this, you basically had a NEGATIVE salary of -12.16$ per hour, for 16 hours.

[@OctaneStreet]

The depreciation of your vehicle aspect alone is why I'd never seriously try UberEats in my Mustang. One of the notes I wanted to add to this video (if it weren't already so long) is that I feel like you have to be very okay with putting intense mileage and wear/tear on your vehicle to do UberEats. Even if it made me a decent profit, I'd still try to find something else to do because I care about my vehicle too much haha. If you have an old reliable Honda or hybrid that's already lost most of its value, then sure this can be pretty good! I love that you crunched some of the numbers I shared at the end of the video. Absolutely hilarious that I was losing in essence $12.16/hr for this video! Now if that doesn't earn your subscription to the channel, what does? 🤔Hahaha I had to.

[@cmichaelwestad52]

UE has been trash for me lately. I worked 80 hours this week for $970 and needed to buy 24 gallons of gas and put $150 aside for the car itself... All before taxes 😮😮😮

[@OctaneStreet]

Oof... Yea that's not it brother! Others have left some very good advice in the comment section, maybe some of it can be applied to your own situation as well to better help turn a reasonable profit!

[@justanotherreseller351]

we live in nebraska with a population of 300K and we can't get accepted for Grub Hub or Spark cause of over saturation so I am shocked that living in New York that DD would not take you..very weird.

[@OctaneStreet]

More people just means even more saturated unfortunately, and I live in Toronto not New York haha.

[@justanotherreseller351]

@@OctaneStreet ah gotcha. Some how I saw new York City center on your screen on Google maps. Please forgive me for my honest mistake 🙏🙏 lol

[@howard2710]

Do you think there was anything else you could do to make more profits? I feel like if majority of ubereats drivers were making this same amount, no one would be doing it

[@OctaneStreet]

Besides being in the downtown core, which would be way too taxing for my car, I don't think so. I'm very curious if new members to the platform just have lower priority on orders until they rank up doing these infrequent jobs. There was two moments throughout the 5 days where I had 3 back-to-back-to-back orders and it kept me properly busy for a good hour. Those are the moments when the platform makes sense, but that was for 1hr over the span of 16hrs. I'm hoping more experienced drivers watch this and chime in with more information!

[@shannonsmith1018]

Try WAL-MART SPARK

[@shannonsmith1018]

And ROADIE

[@mikefaulksy1447]

Looks like the active time for the pay you are getting is terrible. You should be alot more picky with what you take. Take $1 per KM MINIMUM

[@stevehripko8138]

only $15 in tips in 12 deliveries is crazy

[@OctaneStreet]

Funny you say that, since I was and still feel pleasantly surprised by having received so many tips. I don't like work that depends so heavily on tips though, since I don't like people having to feel any pressure at all to give a tip to begin with. It sucks that Uber is unable to come up with other creative ways to allow their drivers to earn more from the base level. Though I can't imagine how that could be done either so... Haha.

[@truth959]

Can't believe your doing Uber with a V8.

[@OctaneStreet]

Lol yea, had no other choice though. At least it made for a pretty unique circumstance to do this experiment with though.

[@truth959]

@@OctaneStreet It was interesting to see

[@DJSHOTTIEJAY420]

and that why i got me a bmw i3 2014 comuting vehicle where i get 80 miles on a full charge and a bit over 2 bucks to fully charge at home =)

[@OctaneStreet]

What a steal! I have nothing at all against EVs or Hybrids, I think they're incredibly dope and revolutionary pieces of technology, and would love to one day be fortunate enough to have one alongside my other gas powered vehicles. Safe to say you'd be able to take home alot more than I was able to in this video hah.

[@DJSHOTTIEJAY420]

@@OctaneStreet the real steal was i paid 11,500 flat thats with the title transfer fees and taxes ect. for it and it came with the charger a aditional big boy nissan charger and only 25k miles on it last serviced was aug 2023 cause it was under warranty i guess still has the leather seats no heat seating =( pooey lol but has the upgraded tech package with reverse cam and the driver assistance and everthing works with a 14.8 left on battery life 1st time e.v owner so i dont know if that is good for a battery life still and another question i do door dash gig work ect. are there any tax break or tax cut benifits if it isn't a new model off the lot btw i'm goin on 40 i got this April 1st i havent stopped smiling i feel like a kid drivin a toy and everyone who has tested my car or been in it says the same thing haha

[@DJSHOTTIEJAY420]

@@OctaneStreet great videos btw keep em coming broski

[@OctaneStreet]

@@DJSHOTTIEJAY420 I love to see people bursting with joy and passion when they talk about their vehicle, that always makes me happy haha. I'm not sure if there are tax breaks for EV owners in relation to doing freelance delivery work, sadly that's something you'd probably have to ask a tax professional. But thank you again for sharing your experience with your I3, and best of luck moving forward with the Door Dash deliveries!

[@ringoscircle]

The salt is real….yea man I’m a bike Uber eats guy and everything is slow and Uber itself ruined its own app

[@deejaywhil3094]

Ask a veteran Uber driver

[@OctaneStreet]

I thought about stopping other drivers at restaurant locations and asking them a few questions and putting that on video but didn't wanna disturb anyone. Maybe next time!