r/ubereatsaustralia

Tried to take a screenshot of my orders. I got an offer for 2 deliveries but had to collect from 3 restaurants. Has anyone else noticed this?

Seems like all we are hearing from is fair work commission and keyboard warriors- let’s hear from actual food delivery drivers and what are your thoughts? Is it a good thing?

Sometimes we just need to go, and I personally think it's okay to use the dunny in the restaurant we're picking up from. But last night, a driver took the order, put it in his hot bag, then took the food and the hot bag into the dunny with him. This seems cooked to me. What do we think, it was bad for them to take someone's food into the toilet with them, right?

I don't like snitching but should I have told the server what I saw?

Personally, I do my business first, wash my hands (of course!), and THEN approach the server with my order number/name. And the bag doesn't come into the toilet with me

In my area all of a sudden there's spike of new ppl joining uber eats and today was the worst day as I did average around 24-25$ did it happen to anyone else

Ive just somehow found this sub and had a general peruse.

Does anyone else find it crazy that youre doing people's shopping for them? Like going into shops and getting things off the shelves?

No wonder everyone is broke lol

Hi all, I am currently doing my tax return and my earnings haven’t pre filled on the ATO. My first question is, after selecting business/sole trader, is the income classed as PSI or business income or loss? First time doing it and getting slightly confused. TIA

Are you guys getting good regular quests after min wage coz from the start day they have stopped giving me quest or rarely one or like just got one for weekend 40 delivery 60$

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, so I decided to actually sit down and work out what I'm earning from Uber Eats after the costs of doing the job.

Here's where I'm at this week:

$988.55 earned

24 hours worked

85 deliveries

646 km driven

$70 fuel

On the surface, that looks like:

$41.19 an hour

Not bad.

But that's the number Uber gives me.

It isn't necessarily what I'm actually earning.

Those 24 hours have also put 646 km on my car.

At my current mileage, I'm servicing the car roughly every 10 weeks and going through around 2–3 sets of tyres a year.

Then there's:

- Fuel

- $2,000/year insurance

- Registration & CTP

- Servicing

- Tyres

- Brakes and maintenance

- Depreciation

None of that shows up in Uber's hourly figure.

So I'm going to calculate the actual cost of operating my car and then account for the tax on the profit.

The ATO's current vehicle-cost benchmark is 91¢ per kilometre, which gives a useful starting point for understanding the scale of the cost.

646 km × $0.91 = $587.86

That means my $988.55 gross earnings aren't really $988.55 of income I get to keep.

And this is what I'm finding interesting about the current Uber environment.

Since the minimum hourly rate came in, I've noticed:

• Very low individual offers — I recently saw $10.13 for 14 km / around 40 minutes

• Heavy-item premiums disappearing or being reduced

• Huge supermarket orders that don't necessarily reflect the actual workload

• Increasingly high quest targets

One Woolworths order I recently collected was shown as 9 bags.

It was actually 31 bags.

I've now done 85 deliveries and driven 646 km to generate $988.55.

So I'm going to finish the calculation properly and work out:

Gross Uber income

− actual vehicle costs

− tax

= actual take-home

And then divide that by the 24 hours I've actually worked.

Because I think that's the number we should really be talking about.

Not "$40 an hour."

Not "$50 an hour."

What do we actually take home for an hour of our time after paying for the privilege of operating the vehicle?

I'll post the completed breakdown once I've worked out the actual numbers.

I'd genuinely like to see what other Sydney drivers are getting when they do the same calculation.

Hi guys, this weekend I only got one daily quest on Friday. I usually work Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I was wondering, with the new hourly rate top up, is it worth it to go on days with no quest?

Just wondering who and how many people tip fast food delivery drivers.

Must confess that I never put a tip in the app as too many issues can arise before your meal is delivered such as paying extra for a direct delivery and having the driver do a stop off along the way, or if a normal deliver the app says it will be dropped off in 40mins but food hasn't arrived 120mins later or as I had last night a driver waited 3hrs to tell me his card wasnt working and was not able to do the delivery. Because of these kind of issues I would rather tip in cash, whats everyone else's habits.

Hi everyone, today i was first at right only lane but i realized i should go straight then i turned my left indicator and went straight when it was safe but got flashed twice will i receive a fine? 😭