#delivery drivers

[iww-gnv]

Thousands of drivers for ride-sharing platforms Uber, Lyft and food delivery app DoorDash will strike across the United States on Valentine’s Day seeking fair pay, drivers’ groups said on Monday. The strike call is the first since Uber and Lyft went public in 2019. Drivers will picket outside airports and Uber offices, two of the groups said.

[sfde8871]

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[reasonsforhope]

"A Ghanaian-English entrepreneur has designed an electric bike from the ground up that’s transforming short-range transportation in her home country, proving that problem-solving in Africa can be done in Africa, by Africans.

[Valerie Labi's] company, Wahu!, assembles each bike by hand, and they can travel up to 80 miles [128 kilometers] on a single charge. This means that a delivery rider for Glovo or Bolt can comfortably cover a whole day’s work without refueling.

Anyone who’s visited Accra, Ghana, in the dry season will remember the incredibly poor air quality. Poor roads mean that cars are stuck in second and third gears, and old cars traveling in second and third gears mean plenty of extra car exhaust.

Poor roads also mean exposed dirt, and exposed dirt means fine-grained dust. Combined with a lack of rain, the smog, dust, and car exhaust make the air in parts of the capital unfit for human health.

Wahu! bikes help alleviate all three of these problems, and despite her English nativity [Note: Super weird and unclear way to phrase it?] and education, the bikes were designed and manufactured in Spintex, Accra.

“By introducing electric bikes into Ghana’s transportation ecosystem, we’re not only providing a greener alternative but also offering speed and convenience,” Labi told The Mirror. “Our bikes are a testament to how service delivery can be seamlessly merged with environmental conservation.”

Valerie Labi is a true inspiration, and besides her transportation company, she got her start in the Ghanaian economy in sanitation. She holds a chieftaincy title as Gundugu Sabtanaa, given to her by the previous Chief of the Dagbon traditional area in the Northern Region of Ghana. She has three children, holds a double major in Economics and Sustainability from two separate universities, and has visited 59 countries.

Getting her start in Northern Ghana, she founded the social enterprise Sama Sama, a mobile toilet and sanitation company that now boasts 300,000 clients.

During her travels around the small, densely populated country, she also recognized that transportation was not only a problem, but offered real potential for eco-friendly solutions.

“It took us two years to effectively design a bike that we thought was fit for the African road, then we connected with Jumia and other delivery companies to get started,” she told The Mirror. “Currently, I have over 100 bikes in circulation and we give the bikes on a ‘work and pay’ basis directly to delivery riders.”

According to Labi, each driver pays about 300 Ghana cedis, or about $24.00, per week to use the bike, which can travel 24 miles per hour, and hold over 300 pounds of weight. The fat tires are supported by double-crown front/double-spring rear suspension.

The bikes are also guaranteed by the company’s proprietary anti-theft system of trackers. Only a single bike has been stolen, and it was quickly located and returned to the owner."

-via Good News Network, January 24, 2024

[insipid-drivel]

My mom and I have gotten so invested in keeping up my tradition of feeding our local wildlife that she's started leaving out a free snack stand FOR DELIVERY DRIVERS

SERIOUSLY! LOOK AT HOW COOL THIS IS!

The sign says "For Delivery Staff - Water & Snacks. Thank you for what you do!"

It all started with me using my disability money to buy a bird feeder to put outside my window, both to entertain my cat and to help draw wildlife in general back into the area around my house. I became even more fixated on keeping my local wildlife - birds especially - fed when I found that there were a few Evening Grosbeaks feeding their chicks primarily from my feeders nesting in a nearby thicket. They're a threatened species and it feels good to have had a small hand in helping a new generation of them survive to adulthood. (For those who know about Dad Banana and Baby - both are doing great and still visiting every day.)

Now, with the severe heatwave we have hitting the Pacific Northwest, my mom put her own "feeder" out for our local delivery drivers, especially anyone that drives for Amazon. She bought snack-sized boxes of doritos, kettle chips, granola bars (with the boxes and their ingredients visible for anyone that may have a food allergy), and a little cooler full of bottles of water, soda, and iced teas to take freely.

[freeking-havoc]

Motion to refer to food delivery drivers as food fairies that drop food at your door. All in favor reblog. 😝🥰

[nando161mando]

[delivery-diaries]

I love humming birds! They’re such gorgeous animals.

I was delivering to a house one time that had a bunch of hummingbird feeders. The hummingbirds would fight over them. One time I was walking up to the front door and a hummingbird smacked into the side of my head. Turns out they aren’t the best at flying when they’re fighting each other.

[brett-is-afraid]

If you're ordering delivery when it's dark out, please leave on a porch light and alert the driver to any hazards in your yard. Otherwise, your driver won't know the space space between their car and your front door is made entirely of water and mud. This will result in:

-Your driver falling twice

-Your driver hurting their hand

-Your driver breaking your eggs because they fell twice

-Your driver having to drive home in their underwear to try and avoid getting mud in their car

-Your driver still getting mud in their car because they are covered front to back

-Your driver having to skip dinner because they aren't going through the drivethru in their underwear

Nobody likes doing all this and I can promise we like doing it for a $1 tip even less. :)

[a113cowgirl]

If you’re ever curious what it’s like to live in Missouri, not only is it not-uncommon to be unable to get home because the road is blocked by an escaped herd of cows… but this isn’t even the first time this has been in the domino’s drivers’ groupchat:

[siristaci]

Does anyone know how I should respond to this?

I've heard something about it being easier for the delivery driver if there's no contact, so I can't really confirm they're friendly. I can't actually see them deliver unless I happen to be coming or going when they get there so idk about "delivered with care". I can't imagine a situation that would be "above and beyond" that applies to me. No special instructions. It's a pretty shitty/simple apartment building, so they'd have to really try to be disrespectful of the property. So I feel the only one I can really do is "on time".

BUT I have a hard time not giving 5 star ratings on things like this (because the people who design employee reward systems are shitty). I'm totally cool with lying to give an employee better scores. And I know driving for amazon sucks, so I want to do what I can since leaving something for them like snacks/water isn't feasible in my situation.

Any amazon drivers wanna weigh in here?

[iww-gnv]

I’m straddling my road bike, carrying two boxes of Chinese dumplings in a paper tote. The DoorDash app tells me I need to sprint my payload across Manhattan – cutting across the Holland Tunnel’s on-ramp – in the next eight minutes. I’m trying out food delivery under New York City’s new minimum wage law on a frigid December afternoon. Before – I was a part-time delivery worker between 2018 and 2020 – an order like this would have paid just a few dollars, making it a frantic rush to finish and move on to the next one. Now the new rules guarantee delivery workers nearly $30 an hour of “trip time”. So I stop at red lights, yield to pedestrians, and though I end up arriving a couple minutes late, I feel surprisingly relaxed. My customer seems pleased, too. But the delivery bosses are already trying to reassert their dominance. Since the law took effect, delivery apps have made it harder for customers to tip. Previously, apps like DoorDash would ask customers to tip their couriers when placing orders, allowing workers to see the total amount before agreeing to take the job. Now, Uber and DoorDash have stopped prompting customers before checkout, and those that still choose to tip can only do so after the delivery has been made, through a button that can be difficult to find.

[ryanwilsons-world]

Lately i have not been picking up order i had a lower order i was deactivated for not have a lover batches orders then i was refered to bobgigs_support on Instagram i was reactivated and programming installation for higher batches, multiple orders gives you opportunities to make more money. You can pick up orders from the same restaurant. All thanks to bobgigs_support.

[nando161mando]

“Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees” - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/22/amazon-teamsters-delivery-drivers/

[delivery-diaries]

My day normally starts around 6am, I get up and get ready for the day ahead. I get to work at 7:30am and load my truck for my route.

I don’t have a set route to drive. I normally get swapped around a lot to help out my coworkers. We can dispatch sometimes around 8:15-9:30am, it really depends on how much we have for the day.

Today my route consists of 4 different little villages and a lot of ranches. Though Tuesdays are slightly easier than some other days. It takes me close to two hours to get to my first stop.

Here’s a picture of my day so far!

[ahhvernin]

The first thing I bought online was on ebay, and it took almost  2 months. I totally forgot that I ordered it, it was like a birthday when it came. Right now, I’m waiting for a phone case in the mail, Its been a month and 1 week.  Its just a phone case. In the same thought I ordered a pack of n95 masks for my friend for the wildfires and she has bad asthma so she cant go out. I ordered that shit and it was there the next day. Amazing. These workers work hard and they deserve respect and good protection and pay. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the couriers from their appointed rounds. Its amazing that they work in almost all weather. Its also dangerous. They do need higher salary, AC, proper PPE, safer vehicles, and more rest periods so they can properly eat and stay hydrated.  Its crazy to me that they are on such a tight schedule.  There really isn’t need to make everything next day delivery. Its okay to wait a week or a month for low priority things. Also maybe I’m old, but I also find it really uncomfortable when a package is delivered to me at 6-7pm at night, like thanks but go home. Its dinner time, go home, I can wait.

I want slower packages delivered by transportation workers who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding

[keyki421]

Why Food Delivery Apps Suck

You can tip a delivery driver and still have a terrible experience.

Food is always delivered cold.

Food is delivered without the proper sealing of bags. Meaning you don't know if the driver messed with your food.

You can get your food half eaten.

You can get the wrong order. Some drivers don't even bother looking at the name, they just grab a bag and go.

You can get half of your order. Delivery drivers have no patience. So many times they won't wait for your full order to be completed. They just take whatever bag is given to them and leave.

Delivery drivers are stupid. Many of them can't read and refuse to have any patience when picking up food.

You can get the wrong food or have your food eaten and will only get half of your money back. You don't even get a full refund and then you don't even get your tip back.

If you have a car and decide to be lazy an order food in, DON'T. Just order from the restaurant. Get in your car and go get it. It will be cheaper and you don't have to worry about all of the things I have listed above.