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ETTING PAID TO RIDE YOUR MOPED OR SCOOTER SOUNDS LIKE THE DREAM JOB. Choose a gig with a food delivery company and this could become reality, and you get to pick the working hours that suit you. With the huge increase in the home food and takeaway delivery market since Covid, there’s been an increasing need for delivery riders. In the UK, this market grew by a quarter in 2021, and it’s estimated an extra 10,000 delivery riders are needed to
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keep pace with demand. For anyone with a moped or scooter, and their CBT completed, it can be a way to make your machine pay for itself. Some riders can earn up to £1000 per week, though £40 per daily shift is more common. The big players in the home food delivery market are Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats. Each works in a similar way where you sign up and agree to their terms, download the work app to your phone, and start delivering food orders. Then the money starts rolling in!
HOW IT WORKS
The phone app will send through delivery orders, and you decide whether to take the job or not. If you do, the companies expect you to collect the food from the restaurant and deliver it promptly and safely. The more orders you deliver, the more you earn. To help with this, the app will always try to bundle together orders from the same restaurant that are being delivered to homes near each other. This saves you making multiple journeys back and forth to collect food and deliver it.
