I don't live in a cycle delivery typical zone, though I think there has been some trike uptick in delivery, much as the tamale man hasn't been out as much.
Here Grubhub drivers might actually make less than their gas if they aren't careful, and the skin off the nose is the restaurant re:misdelivered food. (I don't know of any case that happened--it's more that drivers expect to be earning $x and then find they have to work way more hours to get to $x, which means they're maybe at minimum wage and wearing out their car. And the service scalping off the tips. Not sure how the taxes work for delivery, for waitstaff that would put them in the hole since they'd have to prove they didn't receive tips at the rate expected by the IRS.)
The usual dangers here are truckers driving under slept and now increasingly underfed. There's along with that drivers in trucks they don't know well and on routes they haven't been on before. Our streets aren't as uniformly marked as one might think (or are marked to be read in full daylight without the 'distraction' of speed or lane position.)
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Here Grubhub drivers might actually make less than their gas if they aren't careful, and the skin off the nose is the restaurant re:misdelivered food. (I don't know of any case that happened--it's more that drivers expect to be earning $x and then find they have to work way more hours to get to $x, which means they're maybe at minimum wage and wearing out their car. And the service scalping off the tips. Not sure how the taxes work for delivery, for waitstaff that would put them in the hole since they'd have to prove they didn't receive tips at the rate expected by the IRS.)
The usual dangers here are truckers driving under slept and now increasingly underfed. There's along with that drivers in trucks they don't know well and on routes they haven't been on before. Our streets aren't as uniformly marked as one might think (or are marked to be read in full daylight without the 'distraction' of speed or lane position.)