Do you love driving your car and want to be able to make money doing it? You’re lucky. There are dozens of opportunities for drivers and some of them pay handsomely.
Drivers’ ancillary responsibilities vary, from delivering packages and food to driving children, adults, and animals. Also, you can make money by driving as usual and at the same time displaying some ads on your car.
The most popular side hustles for drivers are signing up for Uber and Lyft. Both rideshare companies hire freelancers to drive their own cars and take other people to bars, restaurants, airports, and other destinations.
Driver pay is based on time, distance, market area, demand, and sometimes bonuses. The average salary for Uber and Lyft drivers ranges from $15 to $30 per hour in the United States. However, drivers pay for their own expenses, such as gas, maintenance, upkeep, and depreciation.
The upside of driving for Uber and Lyft is that you can set your own schedule — and schedule on the fly. There’s no need to commit to a particular time. You can simply flip on your app whenever you have time.
The downside is you are not paid for waiting for passengers or for driving to pick them up. These apps only pay for the time that a rider is in your car. When there’s no passenger, there’s no pay.
However, if you can pass a background check and must drive in the morning and afternoon, a better option would possibly be to drive for one of the many that specialize in transporting children.
Kango, HopSkipDrive, RubiRides, and KidCar typically pay drivers $35 or more per hour of local transportation. Along with the first three (Kango, HopSkipDrive, and RubiRides), most trips take children to and from school and extracurricular activities.
As a result, drivers will be available early in the morning, around 7:00 a. m. M. A. 9:00 a. m. , and early afternoon, around 2:30 P. M. m. until approximately 6 p. m. In particular, those hours tend to be slow for delivery drivers and delivery drivers, so adding a kid-friendly driving rig can be a smart addition to other driving activities.
Thanks to the immediate growth, HopSkipDrive is actively targeting new drivers in every state where it operates. These states include California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
KidCar, meanwhile, operates only in New York. And, there, it primarily transports parents home from the hospital and to airports. Focusing on being a premium option for parents, who want to make sure their ride-hailing driver has the right car seat, this site pays drivers $27 to $67 per ride — one of the best rates in ride hailing. But you need a TLC license and to pass the site’s screening.
People who engage in cross-country moves — or who buy a pet from a faraway breeder — sometimes need a freelancer to take their animal from Point A to Point B. If you love animals and want to help transport them, you can advertise this service on two sites — Citizen Shipper and uShip.
The sites are similar in that they allow independent movers or drivers to sign up and post profiles for free. You can then post a to-do list through clients who want help with one type of move. If you see a task you’re interested in once in, you bid on it, indicating its value and when you can complete the task.
The sites differ only in how they deal with invoices and invoices. Citizen Shipper asks freelancers to pay a modest monthly payment and asks them to collect payment directly from clients. UShip collects payment for you and charges a commission for each job.
Also, if you need to take pets to and from the doggy daycare, the position to signal is Rover. With Rover, you can offer almost any pet-related service, from grooming and walks to boarding and check-in. Signage for freelancers Sign up and create a profile for free. You pay a commission if you get a gig.
Drive regularly to faraway destinations? Two sites — Roadie and Hitch — will pay you for on-the-way deliveries. Roadie largely deals with packages and lost luggage, while Hitch focuses on taking people long distances, primarily between a handful of cities in Texas and Florida.
When used as originally intended (through other people who are already driving in that direction), both sites offer smart opportunities. However, Roadie has evolved to offer pickups and deliveries that are decidedly not on the way. They’re exciting and rarely pay enough to make a circular holiday worthwhile.
Meanwhile, Hitch has become a highly attractive option for long-distance commuters. If you’re driving from Dallas to Austin, for instance, another rider might share the drive with you and pay $100. They get a bargain because that three-hour drive would likely cost two-or-three times as much with Uber (or to fly). And drivers are able to defray all of the costs of commutes, which they were doing anyway.
Another driving/delivery option is to pick up food and groceries for one of the many delivery apps, including UberEats, GrubHub, and DoorDash. All three locations pay a modest delivery fee, plus the customer’s tip. However, especially at night, when other people order dinner, tipping can make the delivery worth it.
However, those apps are more productive when used in conjunction with driving options, such as Uber, Lyft, Kango, HopSkipDrive, or RubiRides. Naturally, you can’t pick up food to deliver as long as you have a paying passenger in the car. But ideally, you should use delivery apps to compensate for downtime between other pickups.
Finally, if you do other driving and delivery jobs, it’s a good idea to sign up with one of the three reputable car advertising companies. Carvertise, Wrapify, and Nickelytics pay drivers to wrap their cars in advertising and drive normally. With this, you can earn between $100 and $450 per month, depending on the advertiser, the campaign, the number of miles you drive, and how much of your car is covered through ads.
Generally speaking, all of those companies have more potential drivers than advertisers. So, you may not get an immediate campaign even if you sign up with all three, which we recommend. But when you launch a campaign, that’s extra money for almost no extra work.
Kristof is the editor of SideHusl. com, an independent publication that reviews money-making opportunities in the gig economy.
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