r/Glasgow Tools

I did it for a while last year. I figured I could try and do some hours during the quieter hours with the taxi.

The problem at the time was that I couldn't ever get "blocks" on hours that suited, and when I did I ended up making less than I would have by just working the quite taxi hours anyway.

The hardest part was always getting blocks. They appear on the app randomly and get snatched up within seconds as everybody is competing against each other to get them. You had to be glued to the app all the time and then it was fastest finger first.

Blocks would come on in fixed lengths, like a 2 hour block for £26 or a 4 hour block for £52 (they almost always were £13 per hour).

£13 an hour sounds good till you factor in the fuel (and for most folk the extra on insurance). Probably works out just a tad better than min wage.

Doing the job was fine. Quite enjoyable.

Some jobs come out of Kinning Park and they where all Amazon Now, so mostly food orders. The ones from that depot were ALL 1 hour or 2 hour blocks. Never more than that. The pain about getting work from that depot was having to return the cooler bags to the warehouse at the end of every block (more fuel).

Most jobs came from the Eurocentral depot and those were the regular amazon deliveries. These could be anything from 1 hour right up to 4.5 hours.

The pain about it was trying to get enough blocks to make it worthwhile. There were weeks when I only managed to tap quickly enough to get 2 or 3 blocks. Don't think I ever managed a single week where I pulled in more than £100 doing it.

I was waitlisted for about 3 days. I hear that the waitlist just now is pretty long. There's no way of really finding out exactly how long though.

Good luck with it! Hope it works out for you.