What is Uber Eats like on Sunday afternoon?
Do you make more money in the afternoon or the evening?
I was keen to find out
what Sunday afternoon was like and I was blown away by the results.
So come for a ride and see for yourself.
Today is a Sunday.
It's a Sunday afternoon and I'm going to do a couple of hours of driving.
Be interesting to see what this Sunday brings.
There is a boost at the moment.
So you can see here there is a 1.1 boost.
The boost only applies to orders that are picking up in the Adelaide CBD.
Not sure whether all will make it into the CBD to pick up orders.
It's not my favorite place to pick up orders from.
You can see here the forecast for the area where I'm starting, which is Hyde Park.
It is now 3:00.
So it's not terrible, but it's not the busiest time.
So certainly the forecast indicates that it's going to get busier around 5 p.m..
It's raining, which generally tends to be better for delivery driving.
Fingers crossed. We'll get some orders and
get some dollars
under the belt this afternoon.
Okay.
So it didn't take long to get the first order.
It is
on King William Road, so I don't know what parking is going to be like there
on Sunday afternoon.
I imagine it's pretty busy,
so hopefully we can get a park.
There is a car park at the back of this restaurant, but
I don't like our chances of getting a park there.
Let's go and find out.
G’day mate, just picking up Benjamin.
Awesome.
Thank you very much. Beautiful. Thank you.
Have a good day.
This is like the pole position of parks.
Like straight out.
What was I worried about?
No problem parking.
All right,
so the pizza was ready.
The guy that served me
threw the pizza in the bag.
Hopefully the pizza is okay, but hey, it's his shop.
He knows what he's doing.
So we're off to Norwood now.
Norwood is another sort of restaurant/cafe hub.
More than likely, we'll pick up something
in Norwood.
Benjamin? Beautiful.
Thanks mate.
So, as expected, we've picked up an order
just around the corner from our drop off because this is a busy little area.
So now we'll go see if we can find a park near
Betty's and pick up the order.
Okay.
Managed to get a park.
It's not too far.
Short walk down the road here.
I find Norwood is one of the hardest places to pick up from.
There's a heap of orders here, but it's just hard,
hard to pick up.
Hi, Jin.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Okay,
I've picked up the order, and now there is a drink in there.
So what I've done is I've put my other delivery bag on the seat
to sort of, you know, make the seat a bit flatter.
And now that drink, tray is just sitting flat.
Obviously, the seats slopes away.
So if you've got a drink on a tray, it's going to be tipped over.
Thanks to Tyrlisele
for the tip about the plastic tubs as well, we'll talk about that
in a minute.
I'm online waiting for an offer.
I don't know where we're going to pick up from now.
Okay.
I've just picked up that order for Nordburger.
It's certainly not my favorite pick up, but it's not like I'm getting
heaps of offers.
The first challenge is going to be parking.
I think the order should be ready because it's not a peak time,
so they should be pretty organized.
Okay, I've got a park.
It's a little walk to the restaurant, but
really we're getting paid for that that walk.
If you look at the price per kilometer or, you know, it's a pretty good offer. So.
That's right.
I'll go for a little walk, pick up the order and back in a moment.
There was a wait.
I don't know why I pick up at that place.
Always hope that they're going to be organized, but they're just not.
Like the food might be great and the guy that served me was,
you know, polite, but they're just not organized.
You always have to wait. But it's okay.
You know, today I'm testing out the Sunday,
seeing what it brings me,
and I'm thankful that I've got some orders.
So, you know, it's all part of the fun.
We're having fun aren’t we?
Okay, just before I dropped off that delivery.
I picked up the next order, literally at the end of the street.
So very convenient.
Hopefully it's ready.
You know, be a nice, efficient pick up.
Awesome.
Thanks mate.
What are my thoughts about Sunday afternoon?
The hourly rate is not the best.
If you started early and did you know
Sunday morning and into lunchtime, it's probably
pretty good.
I will certainly try
doing some driving on a Sunday
morning Sunday lunch shift.
Again, I don't know whether I'll do Sunday afternoon again.
The offers that I've had today,
the have been good for the kilometers, but the time
that it's taken to receive the offers
and then to park and pick up the offers has not really been worth it.
I'm going to head back home now.
I may turn on the app
close to home and just see if I get something that's
sort of in the area, you know,
a little $5 trip at this point.
I pulled over and I recorded some view of comments
which I'm going to put in at the end of the video.
But to give you an idea of what the afternoon shift was like,
here are the stats.
At 3:03, I logged on
and then I received four orders that you saw in that ride along.
3:06 I received this order from Melt
3:29 Betty’s Burgers 3:56 Nordburger
and then 4:20 Burger Foundry and at 4:31 I dropped off the last order.
Now if you watch my videos, you know that I like to do 4
to 5 trips per hour and I was nowhere near that.
So the earnings actually look like this.
So at $23.52 per hour
based on this, I probably wouldn't recommend driving on Sunday afternoon.
However, I almost always drive on Sunday night.
I find it to be consistently the best night to drive.
I'm about to show you why,
So I just popped the app back on.
As I was coming down the road near my house and I picked up another order.
This one is two kilometers away,
5 minutes and it's $8.40.
So I'm going to take it, you know,
just picking up for Flows.
Yeah. Awesome.
Thank you.
Have a good day. Okay.
So I dropped off the shopping order for the customer.
She was waiting out the front for me, so that was very easy
and it's now just after 5:00
and I'm right on the edge of the city.
So there is currently a boost in the city for the next hour.
And we're almost at dinner time.
I mean, it's Sunday.
People tend to eat a little bit earlier on a Sunday.
I'm almost thinking it's worth
hanging around and
doing some more pickups.
Okay, so I've just picked up an order in the city.
So has the small boost applied to it.
It is 2 minutes away, 600 meters away.
So nice and close.
The restaurant is Staazi and CO, which is one of me and my wife's
favorite places to get takeaway.
They do plant based yiros
and it is awesome.
Hi, Judy, thank you.
So that was definitely an easy pick up.
And we've got 4 minutes, 2.3 kilometers to the customer. So.
all good.
We're going to be back in Norwood
So hopefully we can pick up another one.
Hi, how are you?
Okay, thank you.
Have a good day. Seeya!
So we've got the next one
in Norwood
and I've been to this little pizza shop before.
It's in a good location to pick up, so it's not on the main strip
in the little car park where I just parked to pick up that Nordburger. So
good spot.
We're on the way.
All right, let's go check this place out.
G’day mate, picking up for Nick.
Awesome. Thank you.
Yeah, you too!
okay.
You can see that I've picked up another order.
I actually didn't mean to pick it up.
My app has been on auto-accept requests,
and I just haven't bothered to turn it off.
And now it's bit me in the bum.
So let's turn it off now.
Okay, so I won’t be auto accepting anything else.
And I don't really want to cancel the job, so that's okay.
I'll go pick it up
and drop it off.
It's, you know, one minute away,
400 meters down the road.
So let's do it.
Picking up Jill?
Thank you.
Have a good day.
So just got back in the car after picking up that second order,
and I realized that the first drop off is literally just over here.
So I'm just going to walk over, drop off the pizza and be
right back.
Hi, how are you? Good, good.
There you go
Thanks for. Thank you. Have a good day.
So, you know, sometimes things happen for a reason, don’t they?
You know, I didn't mean to accept that order,
but I parked here, picked up an order, walked over, dropped off another one.
It does not get any easier than that
Hi mate.
I was picking up Bianca.
Thank you. Thanks mate
Have a good day.
okay we've got the next order.
I'm basically accepting everything at the moment
because I don't really know the area.
So, you know, there's no point picking and choosing.
I know the area a little bit, but I really don't know
the names of the restaurants, the locations, the parking situation.
So this is all a learning experience for me.
Hello.
How are you? Freya.
Excellent, thank you.
Okay.
I've just dropped off that last order for Freya.
While I was dropping it off, I got a an offer for a double
which is going right through the city, putting me in the right place to
knock off and
go and have some dinner.
Thank you.
And that one? Yep, no worries.
All right, this is where the fun begins.
Where are we going to park?
The restaurant is just there.
No parks there.
Oh, can we get in here?
Yeah, let's do it.
So this is an illegal park,
but hopefully we're only going to be 2 minutes.
Let's see.
All right.
Picked up the order was ready. That's good.
I didn't get any parking fines.
That's excellent.
Now we shall go and drop these two orders off.
Okay, not sure where this customer is.
So it's a bit of a walk around
and I'll see you in a minute.
We're on the homestretch now.
One more to go, then.
I think I'll probably call it a day.
Reception of the holiday park. All right,
let them know I am on the way.
Let's go.
Just.
Just be careful with that.
THey haven’t packed it very well.
That's okay. Okay.
You know, there's a drink as well.
There you go.
Thank you.
Thank you. Have a good day.
So it's now 7:05 and and I am about
seven or 8 minutes from home. And that was my sunday
So now to answer the question of afternoon or evening,
so I earned $114.15
in 3 hours and 34 minutes on this day
when I account for the afternoon earnings, this is what the evening looked like.
So we're looking at $79, 66 in 2 hours and 6 minutes,
and that is at $37.93 per hour.
So dinnertime wins.
Was there ever any doubt? If you made it this far
well done. It's been a marathon.
Thank you for watching.
Have a great day.
I've recorded a couple of comments halfway through the day today
because I thought I was going to finish early. In relation to my previous video.
Five Tools That I'll Take When I'm Delivery Driving.
There were a couple of recommendations that came through from everybody,
so thank you very much for putting those out there.
So we had a comment from Lance Goodall.
So Lance asked where I put my phone.
I'll get to that in a second.
But he said one thing that I left off was
have a good quality pair of glasses
to avoid glare and for safety reasons,
when the sun is shining directly into your eyes, so great, great point.
So it is important to have sunglasses.
So they are they provide UV protection.
They also do provide safety here in Adelaide or in Australia
delivering in summer.
The sun is setting anywhere from 730 to 8:30 p.m..
You'll be driving directly into that setting sun.
So have a good quality pair of glasses so that you can see where you're going.
Okay.
This one was from tire.
Tyrlisele.
So got this one off, another driver, but a cheap plastic box from Officeworks
or reject shop if you do any breakfast shifts, support
drink and coffee orders in case of leaks or spills as the worst
case, you are hosing out the plastic box and not cleaning a car seat.
Absolutely.
So that's that's a great suggestion.
So, you know, having a plastic tub that you can put the drinks or the coffees in
will certainly save the car seat if you do have any spill.
So a couple of good suggestions there. Thank you very much.
One thing I forgot to mention,
Lance's comment.
He talks about clipping the phone into the air vent.
Personally, that's where I like to clip my phone in as well.
And the nice thing about that is that in summer,
when you're driving around with the air conditioning on, it's actually
cooling your phone and keeping the charging the charging cradle.
Cool. I'll say goodbye.
I'll leave you with the comments and see you on the next one.