Anyone here been a pizza (or other) delivery driver?

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How did you do? how was driving?
Were you pressured to rush to your destination?
I want to see if I can be one.
I could buy a gps.
I can't rush. I need a normal amt of time to get to places.
I suck at parallel parking.
normal suburbs would be fine.

no, I have not. I probably would suck at the driving part, the rushing part, and the anxiety of going up to someone's house.

Yes, for 5 years. I loved it, I could work 25-30 hour weeks and bring in about $1500 a month.
How did you do?
Great! My best time ever was leaving the store with 5 different orders (on different streets) at once and making it back from them all in 25 minutes. I was the 2nd highest paid driver.
how was driving?
I love driving. I love delivery jobs.
Were you pressured to rush to your destination?
Only by myself. Most people only take 1, maybe 2 orders out at a time, which is pretty easy. But I knew I could do more so I did.

The only things I disliked about the jobs is counting the change and trying to find the addresses on houses and looking at faded street signs (or ones missing all together).

you get a parking ticket once in a while - because anywhere you deliver you almost always have to double park or leave your car in a prohibited spot. a Betucci's delivery guy had his car towed when he delivered pizza to my college campus. a $50-150 parking ticket that's 1-3 days of his wages. will his boss pay the parking ticket? of course not. restaurants transfer the inevitable cost of being a delivery driver onto the driver. and if you are unhappy with it, the boss can find someone to replace you any day of the week.

having said that, yes being a delivery driver can be a fun job and you can make a living off of it.

The only problem is no pizza places seem to be hiring.

The ones around here have a heavy turn over.
You might need a copy of a driving record, at least you do around here.
I wasn't rushed, but sometimes I had to deliver several pizzas to more than one location.
Make sure you are a polite driver if you have a sign advertising the place you work on your car. Once, I turned in front of someone, I thought there was plenty of space but they called my manager and told her I turned in front of them and made me sound like a bad driver which was an exaggeration...but still...be extra cautious while delivering.
I delivered pizzas to residents and apartments in a suburb, so I didn't have to pay for parking.

Agree

yes i have been a pizza driver

yes you are rushed for deliveries
the cost to do the job is more than your pay check
in my experience you pay for your own gas and only get a dollar per delivery and only minimum wage
you do not get to choose where you deliver to and where you deliver depends on the address when it is your turn
you would need to know how to parallel park if there is a party at the house and parallel is the only place open for parking

you do not make enough money at it to afford to spend money to do the job

if there is a accident while you are delivering most insurance will not cover you since they call thiscommercial use of your car

restaurants make you use your own car and the regular maintenance based on milage schedule is more expensive than you get paid

you would make more money by working at mcdonalds where you do not have the expense of using your car to do the job and the same goes if you start thinking about delivering news papers

I have. It was many years ago in a city/town of about 10,000 people, with some surrounding rural area. We had a map book, so you could always find the street, but one thing that made it really difficult was the fact that a lot of people don't have visible addresses on their houses. I would drive along the street, trying to find 1123, and I'd go past a whole bunch of houses with NO visible address, at least not that I could see at 30 mph, and if I slowed down, people behind me would freak out. When I finally did see an address, it would be, like 1957, so I'd go back the other way, and....well, you get the picture. It was worse in the dark, because a lot of people have no lights at all.

Now I'm in a much more urban area, and it would be completely impossible for me to deliver pizzas, since I'm not willing to park illegally.

you can make a small income from it. it depends how much people tip. and if customers live close to the restaurant you make more money

You're pretty lucky then. Here, it's dead. Nobody's hiring.

I had a friend who delivered pizzas. He loved his job, even though they made him work a bunch of hours. He got some really good tips, though, especially on game days.

When I was working I made really good money and some of my tips were generous. Of course it's not like having a career with a salary, but it beats fast food.

This is a problem. The price of gas has gone way up and it takes a chunk of your profits. I had the job before the price of gas went up so this is something to consider...

I worked at Pizza Hut. This is what I did. Once I got familiar with the job, knew the parts of town pretty well, I started taking the orders more and more. When I was there, not out delivering, I took the orders so I knew where all the pizzas were going. I made sure I took the pizzas to the addresses closest to the Pizza Hut and saved gas that way. I gave the orders farthest away to the rookies, lol. It's not nice but it is a dog eat dog world, after all. I hope they didn't catch on that all their pizzas were far away while mine were closer.
To be fair, I think someone did catch on eventually because I returned from delivering ( I can't answer the phones at the restaraunt while out driving) only to be handed an order that was really far away, lol. I was like, "holy s**t this is far", lol.

Parking was never a problem for me but I live in a suburb where parking isn't an issue...depends on location.


Depends on tips. My tips were really good.


Be extra extra careful and you should be alright.


Make sure you have a decent car that doesn't have mechanical issues. Mine did and this is one reason I stopped working at Pizza Hut. My car stalled out when it rained and we had a rush and my car stalled during deliveries and I had to wait until the spark plugs dried before I could get it to start again.


I've worked at Mcdonalds I hated it. I liked Pizza Hut better, but that's just me.

I used to be a bike messenger. Pedalling around London, delivering legal papers can be fun, but it does have its downsides. Working in all weather, danger, and low pay being just 3.

Otherwise it's great. The majority of the time, you're alone, and if history fascinates you, there's plenty of local history spots that people hardly ever notice. Life just flies by at 25mph, and nothing matters but the package. Also, there's no need to 'conform' to anything. On the road, you're your own boss (at least until the radio comes to life).

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I did a vending route job. It was hard work, but not bad. Company provided van. I didn't have any driving problems...ever. Put in 12-hour days or longer...skipped lunch to go home as soon as I was done.

Biggest problem I had was the customers. I did my job very, very well (reliable, cleaned machines spotless, rotated stock, kept inventory fresh and varied), but I was bad with people. I resented distractions...especially when I had to count money from the machines..., and I wasn't in the mood for conversation. I could talk or work, but not do both, and I was already putting in 12-hour days as it was.

This inability to "socialize" was a common source of complaints against me. My supervisor admitted that it was stupid for customers to expect the vending machine guy to be "chatty," but in a time when the customer could just change providers over something like that, doing my job well otherwise wasn't good enough.