hey guys I'm Chris and welcome back to another video I have Arnel with me
today and you've actually seen him in my channel before we did a video but that
was around two years ago but for this video I just thought it would be
interesting to tag along with Arnel because he is actually an Uber eats
driver so we'll get to see how it works and also how much he earns from driving
in ubereats let's go
I just turned on the app and just waiting for the job to come in
go yeah guys we got our first job
okay
Bernard
where's that what? where is it where is it? the order,
this one Barnard. Barnard Street? no, the name of the person that we need to.. ahh okay
where is it going to be delivered do you know? so once
we click this one once you get the food you'll know you'll know where is it at the moment we don't have an idea
okay so like sometimes you have no idea if it's far yeah we don't know but
usually it is within the city oh okay because I thought that you could say no if it's far but I
guess not no idea because if it's far I think there's also an Uber driver assigned
from there. Ahhh, okay.
let's go click and start delivery navigate where's it going? Ah, Featherston
street yeah
guys we got our first order yeah so like true to what Arnel said he usually drives
to McDonald's and that's where he gets his job and like when we turned the
street we got a job like straightaway and so we're delivering this food to
Wadestown and it's like seven minutes away so while we're driving to our next
destination I just wanted to ask you like what were the requirements that you
needed to do in order to drive for Uber Eats? One of them is police clearance
yeah and registration. Wait so how much was the police clearance I think $40
yeah okay $40 $40 and you need to submit your insurance the commercial for
commercial okay so you change your insurance from personal to commercial
and it wasn't that expensive aye like maybe additional $3 per fortnight yep yeah and
what else a copy of your license or a passport
all those legal stuff but you need to wait for three weeks
okay so and and that one thing that you told me about before, but this one is
optional so you need to pay for loading and unloading zone which was sixty
five 65 dollars for a year so it's not too bad so I can park on a loading zone you do not have to pay for parking every time you pick up or deliver
so it's not that hard to apply as a driver yeah but you just have to call them every day to to get
approved because I think they don't have any customer service so like how
long was how long did you wait yeah three weeks three weeks I think
first week and to the second week I didn't call them but at the last week I
was calling them every day so that they can approve because that's what Josh told me
okay and finally you're now an uber eats driver yeah
it's it's a nice house so see delivered so I'll just swipe it okay um do you
know right away if the person will give you a tip or later later
uh so nine dollars and sixty nine cents off to our next location back to McDonald's
we have another job and it's three minutes away from the pickup point
job number 2
guys were actually waiting for the order they said it's seven minutes away so I
just wanted to ask Arnel a few questions from my notes so how did you
start driving or why did you start driving for Uber eats yeah it's more of convenience and extra money
yeah is it worth it would you think? um yes and no because you know you'd be
spending a lot of time like this one you'll be waiting and it's not paid but
anyway if you have a full time job or if you have other job I think it's fine
at the moment so tell us more about your main job my main job is I'm a Pilates
instructor and I only work like those peak hours of the day like morning, evening, or lunch time between
those gaps I can you know drive so you have time in
between to drive for uber eats so it's good that you have the flexibility
flexibility and this is what's what's good about uber eats is you don't have a
boss and it's just more like just to press the app and you have a job and
you have you know extra money so how many times in a week would you say you
drive for uber eats? I think at the moment I just do four times a week so more
Saturday and Sunday and the other with two are two times on the weekday
so how many hours would you say you drive for uber eats? an hour and a half
during your this is in between your regular work right and my
other question I'm really curious what's the biggest tip you've gotten so far
five dollars okay and this is the girl that ordered McDonald's is that right
yeah okay so hopefully that guy with a nice house will give you a big tip also
Mcdonald's guys it's half past 5:00 in the afternoon it's already nighttime this
is our second order and probably our last because it's been an hour since we
started driving for uber eats. $23
for an hour of driving oh hey guys so we are home now and we did about an hour of
driving right so after an hour and after two deliveries Arnel made twenty two
dollars and 53 cents the first one was $9.36 and you just do the math and
the second one was like that amount so um so would you think it's I think I asked you
this before but like we do you think it's worth it like it would come out as
like twenty two dollars fifty an hour right but like after petrol cost and
your time spent of course after the maintenance of your car would you say
like it's worth it driving for uber eats I think so I think they said you earn minus
all the stuff it would be like twelve dollars so I think it's fine because you
know you have your own freedom to do it yeah I think I think you make it worth
it if like if you have a car like Arnel where like the engine is like 1.0
so that like you don't spend a lot of money on petrol yeah yeah I think so
yeah if you have a bigger engine that's the thing yeah yeah it's like you'd be ripped off
okay so I like I wrote down the things I learned like driving with Arnel on
uber eats is that like you can't really say no to the distance like I thought
you could like I thought like your phone would say you'll deliver this there but
you you don't really know you you pick up the food and then you'll it's the
time that you know yeah yeah where are you going because like we ended up kind
of far we ended up in like Johnsonville and that's kind of far from where we are
sure yeah and also like I didn't realize this before that uber drivers
actually wait i thought that like when they accept an order and they go to the
restaurant the food is ready right away I didn't know that like yeah for us in
McDonald's we waited for around maybe five five minutes yeah and then when we
went to the second one the Chinese store it was a lot of orders so we
waited around 10 minutes yeah so that one I didn't know and also like you need
to drive on a full stomach yeah you smell all the food. Both of us it was still early like half pass four
right and around like 5:00 5:30 we were already hungry because like we can
smell the food yeah so that's another thing you should drive on a full stomach
and I think the last thing that I would say is that tip your uber driver because
like especially here in New Zealand there's no tipping culture like most
people don't tip because they say that the minimum wage is a living wage
minimum wage is around I can't remember now I think it's around 16 dollars at
the moment yeah so like most most people it's just not part of the culture here
like they don't tip but like so if you're watching this video like you know
the life of an uber driver it's not easy like the money
it's not it's not an easy money because like after the petrol taxes yeah that's
another thing I haven't mentioned that you need to declare your taxes you need
to file for your taxes so yeah that's what I can say tip your uber driver
anything else you can add like from your experience what can you say your overall
experience is with driving for uber eats I think for for now I think I enjoyed it
so no it's good yeah and also like there's something that you told me
before that like you get to explore these different places yeah in you know
Wellington this is where we live that otherwise you wouldn't know know yeah
yeah yeah and yeah so I think that's it yeah so um that's all we have for you
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