Hello to everyone, especially our new members. I'm sorry I fell off for so long - I almost forgot about Skool entirely! I still plan on doing my videos about overall food app strategy but lately my focus on freight has been getting most of my attention! I am acquiring a cargo van - hopefully by year's end. I've also taken the time to try a new app and I invite you to try it out with me, if you're willing to lose 5 (paid) days of your life to earn you and me a $75 bonus. I'm going to tell you about my first 7 days on this platform and how it went for me. Better Trucks is a logistics company that got its start with trucks as the name would imply, but elbowed its way into last mile deliveries in a handful of regions. It is kind of like Amazon Flex, Gofo, Veho, or Buglr (ok, we made that one up) - you are going to a warehouse and getting a package route to deliver. They specialize in ecommerce so you will be carrying stuff people order on TikTok and Temu as well as stuff from major clients like Ulta and REI. There's 2 separate apps - one for setting up shifts and one for scanning your packages and executing your route. The experience itself isn't bad. You go in and scan a gay little QR code on a whiteboard to tell the dispatcher (who is physically present at a table) you have arrived. Then you say hi to them and they tell you which letter (zone) you are going to and you go to the palate marked with the corresponding letter to grab your shit. This is a major issue that I will bitch about more shortly - you don't know what zone you are working until you get to the warehouse. The warehouse has carts, big parcel bags, palate jacks, and other stuff like that if you need. It can take up to an hour to scan and load your route depending on the size - definitely bring a sharpie to mark the order of your packages! Also, definitely load your vehicle in a way that doesn't bury packages you would need. I like to put lower numbers and smaller parcels in the front seat area with me and then stack the rear by decade. I used my hot bag as a bag for the small foldery ones. Once you are out, you will spend anywhere from 4-10 hours road time. You are free to take breaks as you need but you might get annoyed by dispatchers on text if you idle for too long. If you're used to food apps, it won't be as relaxing. What I've found is that urban and rural routes are equally dreadful/pleasant for different reasons. City drops are closer together but you will have to go into more apartment buildings - the instructions dictate you get the package as close to the front door as possible, not the package center! Be a good noodle and do it if you can, but don't wait around forever if you can't get up there. This is someone's Christmas you are playing with. Therefore, the whole thing is more time consuming and labor intensive but overall not bad, and it can be a fun little tour of different neighborhoods in your city. Stops will only be a few minutes apart so that relaxing cruise you get on some other gigs will only occur on your way to your route. Once you are in the field, it's up and down and in and out. I would recommend dressing accordingly as well. If you are a courier who likes to look nice, bear that in mind. This isn't the kind of job to be doing in a suit or even in business casual, and definitely not decked in jewelry.

What makes a Roadie order a banger? Obviously the tip in addition to several other factors we can discuss. Does size matter? Obviously it does - but the gig economy does not discriminate when a smaller job can be done by a smaller vehicle and you're the they/them available to do it. The way Roadie assigns orders remains a mystery - and sometimes it is the carelessness of the guy at BestBuy that chooses the driver an hour away over the offer you submitted. But I recently learned that this also means some of the orders listed for larger vehicles may be manageable in a smaller one. Just switch your vehicle type in the app - no verification. Now it will display more trips on your map - you can just check the dimensions on the order to see if you want to apply. Don't worry, you'll still see the little prescription orders from CVS. I've been thinking about offering a quick rundown on tips like this for just $5 - and for the first few suckers that sign up, a full consultation session. LFG! That means - start shilling this page to your friends!

Hello! I am new to skool and I want to check out some other communities before developing mine, but I've noticed that there are groups for specific "side-hustles" rather than for gig workers more broadly. I created this group for those of us who want to develop these side businesses into a life-sustaining career. This is about more than selecting the right trips on the right apps. The AI overlord on DashMates is not your boss. It is merely a tool in your arsenal to build a customer base and keep the wheels moving so your transportation business can keep afloat! About me: I have a worthless degree and the work ethic of a dozen men from past centuries. It took me far too long to realize that this is what I should have been doing all along. I got into the gig apps as a joke initially while working for a start-up consulting firm specializing in fraud protection on third-party services such as DoorDash. Ask me about refunding your orders for free shit! I wanted to see what was going on first-hand. This gave me an appreciation for data science, opening up a totally different and unrelated career avenue for me. It also gave me valuable information that I was able to put to use in first trying the gig economy to become profitable on my first day. I prefer to transport freight or deliveries over humans, though I am open to anything above my threshold. No tip no trip! I have been optimizing and adapting my strategy and logistics for almost 5 years now and I have plenty to share with you. Short-term roadmap: I want to produce a video explaining my experience in a handful of delivery platforms: DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub, Roadie, and Lyft. I would go through the pros and cons of each and explain where each app falls on the spectrum of order volume versus order quality - and how I used each to develop a winning strategy in my market by determining the ideal time and location to be on each platform. I believe that my system can be adjusted to any market, though people in smaller markets may need to be a bit less selective due to lower volume in general. I also want to start recruiting members for this community and encouraging dialogue. I am not a gigtuber but I may produce gigtubing content exclusively for this group if you ask very nicely and promise not to dox me.