Driving For Uber Eats - EVERYTHING You Need To Know - YouTube

hey everybody today we're gonna talk a little bit about driving for uber eats

I've been driving for uber eats for about two and a half years I've got a

lot of experience so in this video we're gonna cover why driving for uber eats

might be a good fit for you I'll also give you some of my pro tips I've

learned over the years I'll teach you how to sign up and also once you signed

up how to make the most money possible and be very efficient make sure you

watch to the end of this video to find out how to make an additional bonus when

you sign up and start driving through Uber Eats so let's get into it

alright so now we're going to talk about how it actually works how do you make a

delivery on uber eats so you'll go online on the uber eats app

and once you're online you'll get pushed a notification that will be a delivery

you can either accept or decline that we'll talk about that a little bit later

so accept the delivery by tapping on the icon it should tell you about how long

it'll take or the distance to the restaurant so once you accept the order

it'll navigate you directly to the restaurant does that right in the app

it's very simple once you get to the restaurant find a quick place to park if

you have to double park outside and put your hazard lights on it should be a

quick process use your best discretion at that then when you get there you'll

have an order number to reference walk into the restaurant always bring

your phone with you very important at every step of the process reference the

order number with the staff at the restaurant sometimes they'll prefer you

say the name on the order as well as the order number kind of varies you'll get

the hang of it give them the order number if the food's ready they'll give

it to you you're in and out very quick sometimes you have to wait a little bit

for the food in the app as well it will tell you what the customer has ordered

so it's important to verify everything they ordered is in the bag when you leave

can save you a lot of time and headache in case they got something wrong so

always verify that once you have the food you'll go on the app and confirm on

the app that you have picked up the delivery then it will navigate you to

the customer's house apartment office wherever it is that they're at at this

point it's probably a good idea to send a pre-loaded text to the customer and

say hey I'm your uber eats driver I'm on the way this is the case if they didn't

give you any info in the description sometimes they'll leave you details hey

this is my gate code number this is my office suite number

this is my apartment number and that's really helpful but it doesn't always

happen so if the customer hasn't left you information it could be smart to

fire off a quick text that says hey just wonder do you have a gate code maybe

what's your apartment number office suite number and also it'd be really

helpful if you can meet me outside when I arrive things like that can save a lot

of time and also gives the customer enough time to respond so that's just a

little tip that can really help save time once you arrive

if the customer isn't there you're knocking on the door you can call them

directly through the app or text them really helpful and nine times out of ten

it's a seamless process they're there waiting for you you give them the food

and then you confirm that the trip is over right there on the app and you'll

move on to the next one protip get one of those mounts that hold your phone in

your eyesight that can always see really convenient helps a lot so how much can

you really make driving uber eats this is the question I get all the time so there

are a lot of factors obviously but in general it's all about the time so the

more trips you do an hour the more money you make an hour so there a lot of

factors involved there if you have to wait too long at a restaurant that cuts

into your time if you have a lot of trouble finding the customer when you're

making a delivery that cuts into your time so the whole name of the game is

efficiency so every step of the way if you can cut down on your time wasted you

should be making more money now on a slow day I might drive for seven or

eight hours and make close to a hundred dollars that would be a slow day on a

really good day I've made as much as two hundred dollars for that same seven or

eight hour period it's all about packing in the trips around three or four trips

an hour is really good benchmark to hit if you're doing two trips an hour and

you're going long distances the long distance can pay more sometimes but if

it sends you out to somewhere where there's not a lot of ubereats

restaurants to choose from then you might have to backtrack quite a bit to

get back into a high-traffic area the easiest thing you can control is having

a good attitude because those tips can really add up so if you have a great

attitude with the customer sending those personal texts hey I'm on the way and

always try to drive that efficiency saving time wherever

you can and being efficient so the customers can either tip you in cash

they can add a tip when they're placing their order through the app or they can

tip you afterwards and they have a couple of weeks to add a tip afterwards

so if they don't use the app much they might have forgotten to do it honestly

and the next time they load the app it'll prompt them hey do you want to

rate and review your uber delivery from last time and leave them a tip so

sometimes I've gotten tips weeks after I've made a delivery easiest way to

maximize your tips be efficient be polite

maybe sending a personal text after you've made the delivery that says hey

thanks for ordering with uber etes have a nice day those kind of things go a

long way also be sure use the hot bag when you have food that's hot they give

you a bag that's insulated and keeps the food hot put it in the bag I like to

physically take it out of the bag when I'm delivering it so that way they know

I used it because if you just come up with the regular back from the

restaurant they don't even know you used it they will appreciate it and will

translate it in the tips use the hot bag alright now let's talk about how to

maximize your earnings so the name of the game here is pay attention every

trip you go on you're gonna learn something new so just pay attention to

the information you get so if you are consistently getting deliveries from one

area you're gonna know that's pretty high-traffic area there's a lot of

restaurants that do uber eats around here so maybe stay around that area because

you're gonna have the most volume of deliveries to accept you'll start to

learn the best times that you should drive for me that's been usually on the

weekdays during lunch time seems to be a really good time to drive there's not as

much traffic there's a lot of orders being placed same thing goes for the

weekends a lot of people ordering all day long Saturdays and Sundays great

time to drive and also not as much traffic and then sometimes just driving

at dinner I mean there's always every day of the week people are ordering a lot at

night so you just kind of have to find what works best for you works with your

schedule and if you're doing it full-time you might just be driving all

the time anyways so depending on your schedule if you only drive uber eats a

couple hours a week what you want to look out for is driving in boost times

so the boosted times are I have an area that if you drive and make deliveries

within that area you'll make more money so it

sometimes is one and a half times the regular rate and that boost can really

make a big difference and just maximize your earnings if you're doing those same

exact trips same distances same restaurants you're going to in a non

boosted time it's you're going to make less money for the same amount of time

and effort so look out for those boosted areas there's a promotions tab in the

app you can find it at all times and it'll give you a schedule for about a

week out you can see exactly when all the boosted times are and kind of plan

your schedule around that alright so how is the payment calculated so as soon as

you arrive at the restaurant you're picking up from you start getting paid

so it's calculated based on the miles from the restaurant to the customer and

the time it takes so that's how your payment is structured plus tip so if you

had to drive a really short distance to get to the restaurant and then maybe a

long distance to get to the customer that's your ideal trip because you're

getting paid for the most amount of time and mileage all right so how do you get

paid this is probably one of my favorite things about driving for uber eats

is the instant pay feature you can cash out whenever you want so the normal

schedule is that you get paid weekly so every week you'll get a check from uber

if you drive three or four days that week you'll get paid for that time if

you drive one day that week you'll still get paid once a week for that time the

instant pay feature allows you to cash out your balance whenever you want so if

I Drive 10 hours on Wednesday and I want that money immediately I can cash it out

right then and there when I go offline you can even cash out more than once

throughout the day if you like so if you drive for a couple hours in the morning

or in the afternoon and you can cash out then and then maybe you drive a couple

more hours at night you cash out again you don't have to but it is an option

and when I say instant pay I mean when you cash out it goes directly into your

linked bank account and it is available for you to spend immediately there's no

waiting period of it takes three days or it even takes an hour it goes into your

bank account instantly so that's one of my favorite features you can get your

money right away so if you drive for uber eats you can actually save a lot of

money on your taxes because you can write off a lot of expenses from your

day to day job functions so number one being mileage

so you can write off your mileage it's great to use some sort of tracking app

like mile IQ there could be other ones out there but make sure to track your

mileage so it's easy to report at the end of the year another thing you can

write off is wear and tear on your car car maintenance oil changes maybe you

get new tires all that stuff can be written off as expenses because you're

using your car for your job you can also write off part of your cell phone bill

as well since you're actually using your phone for your job all right so what's

it like to drive for uber eats so in my experience it's actually been

pretty fun I'm in Atlanta I've learned a lot about the restaurants everybody's

ordering from all the time I found a lot of good new places that I've eaten at

just from picking up orders there all the time I've learned to navigate the

city way better I'm so much more confident in navigating Atlanta now than

I was a few years ago as a direct result of driving for uber eats so I found

shortcuts that I use all the time I found never get off on this exit for

X&Y reason so there's a lot of pros to just learning your city and also

learning new spots new neighborhoods it's really cool and really the biggest

thing is not having a boss not having a supervisor and kind of being in control

of your schedule completely so you can go online and drive whenever you want if

you're doing it after at work you have a full time job do it on the weekends or

if driving uber eats is your full-time job I personally have driven uber eats

full-time I've done it part-time just on the weekends taking a couple months off

before sometimes I'll Drive only once a week so you really get to kind of

control your schedule and maybe you're coming up on the first of the month you

need a little bit of extra money for rent whatever it might be and you can

just get in the car and earn some money very easily just kind of at the drop of

a hat so that's a big Pro for me so who can drive for uber eats this could vary

state to state but in general you have to be 19 years old have a 1998 or newer

vehicle you have to have a valid driver's license and insurance how to

stay in good standing with uber so number one you have to take at least one

trip every 90 days so you got to do at least one delivery every 90 days or you

could get suspended another very simple thing you

have to keep your documents up-to-date so your insurance and your car

registration you have to keep those up to date if your license is coming up to

expire you have to keep that up to date it's as simple as uploading a photo make

sure you set a reminder when you get close to that expiration date I have

missed the deadline before uploading my insurance information and I've been

unable to drive for about a week because I didn't have my documents up to date so

be sure to set a reminder you have to accept the majority of trips that you

get pushed so I think it's 85% of your deliveries you have to accept on the

flip side of that you can't cancel more than 15% of the trips you've already

accepted so this is uber's way of making sure that you're completing the

trips that you say you're doing and also making sure you can't just deny trips

until you get the one you want so make sure you accept trips frequently if not

always and rarely if ever cancel a trip once you've accepted it and the last

thing is just have a good work ethic and a good attitude

because that's gonna translate into customers giving you good ratings and if

you get a bunch of bad ratings uber doesn't like that so good work ethic

good attitude good ratings okay people ask me this all the time can you eat on

the job do you ever steal people's fries from their order no basically I never

steal anybody's food but pretty easy to eat on the job first of all you're going

to a bunch of restaurants it's easy to pick up a quick snack or a drink you

don't want to necessarily place a full order for a meal while you're also

picking up someone's order that's just gonna cost you time and money

it's silly you could bring food from home if you like the rare gem that happens is

someone cancels an order when you've already picked up the food that's when

you get to eat their food so that's usually the best case scenario very rare

don't expect it all right I got one last tip on how you can make some extra money

driving with uber eats when you sign up

uber has what they call the referral program they'll give you a referral code

and you can share that with friends and family to sign them up to drive uber

eats and you'll get a kickback so I have my referral code in the description if

you click that link and sign up you'll have to complete a certain amount of

trips it's usually around 25 or 30 could be more could be less it varies by each

case you should get a bonus I sometimes get a bonus from uber as well for

signing you up all right so thanks for watching this

video if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment below I'll be

monitoring the comments section a lot so I'm gonna try to respond to

everything possible that I can also if you already drive for uber eats and you

want to share some of your experience go ahead and leave a comment below it

really helps the video it helps the channel and also you might put some

information in there I didn't cover that somebody else sees and it helps them out

so leave your expertise in a comment leave your questions and once again

thanks for watching get out there deliver something uber eats

alright everybody I just got done with my deliveries for the day thanks for

watching till the end of the video I mentioned earlier that I would tell you

at the end how you can make an additional bonus when you sign up to

start driving for uber eats so we talked about the referral program

earlier so when you sign up with my code which is below i have a link directly to

it when you sign up using that most times you will get a bonus and I will

also get a bonus for signing you up so to really sweeten the deal what I'm

gonna do is add an additional bonus on top of that so here's how that's gonna

work if you sign up using my code uber eats will tell you how many trips you

need to complete to get that bonus once you complete those number of trips come

back to this video I've left an email in the description so

send me an email let me know you completed your trips I'll verify it on

my end that you really did complete the trips and if I got a bonus for signing

you up I'm gonna send you an additional $50 on top of the bonus you get from uber eats

I'll put all this info in the description include the email that you

need to send a message to I think that's a nice extra bonus an additional $50 you

never know what kind of bonus you're gonna get from uber so it's just a nice

extra incentive I'm happy to do it any questions at all you guys have leave

them in the comments I'm gonna try to answer every single one and if I don't

know the answer I can refer you to the right place so with that being said

thanks for watching the video we'll wrap it up here and don't forget I have a

sign-up link in the description click through to that it'll take you right to

the sign up page it's really easy and you can get on the road and be delivering

with uber eats within a couple of days thanks for watching get out there and

drive some uber eats let me know how it goes

see ya