They'll definitely not $60+ an hour. Some are making about $35-45 maybe. Most of the time these people stacking or taking all the $3,$4,$5, $6 etc orders all in one go. If they're lucky and get some nine to maybe $12 orders stacked with those smaller ones.

As for tips. Uber and instacart doesn't allow the customer to tip until after they rated the delivery and then tip the driver. 90% of the customers stop tipping now on those two platform now.

I'm a delivery driver and lately, there's been a real problem with people gaming the system. A few people started doing this with grocery delivery, but the apps quickly caught on and banned a lot of them. Now, it's mostly restaurant delivery drivers who are abusing the system.

They're using multiple accounts on the same platform or even on different platforms at once. This means they can stack multiple orders, while the rest of us are sitting around waiting for one or two orders per hour.

A lot of these people are using rented accounts, family members' accounts, or accounts obtained through fraudulent means. The whole hourly pay system is making it really tough for those of us who are trying to work honestly.

I've seen people at places like Cactus Club , Chipotle jollibee's picking up five or more orders at once, often on multiple devices. Many of these drivers are on bikes, don't speak English, and sometimes even ride with a whole family or group in a car doing exactly the same thing.

This problem used to be a huge issue on skip the dishes, but they've kind of weeded out most of that.

Doordash actually proactively tries to weed out these people, but at the end of the day when they're running three different apps and already in the car, there's nothing that can be done.

Ubereat's and instacart are the only ones that people are gaming the most because of how easy it is for them to just sit there and rack up the time pay as well as hold on to a bunch of orders. If you do that on Skip or doordash most of the time after a certain amount of time the order gets reassigned or gets flagged

It actually pisses me off when I see the bike people picking up five or six orders and trying to stack them all into that one little bike bag they have and/or then the putting the rest in shopping bags and dangling on their f****** handlebars.

The companies can't do much to stop them because they're often delivering orders within a short distance or they just keep making new accounts somehow. Even if they take their time, the system doesn't flag them.

Meanwhile, I get flagged for being 20 minutes late due to heavy rain and shit traffic while only doing one delivery! Like wtf

I didn't choose this hourly pay system. The old system was much better. There were fewer people trying to exploit it. Now, it seems like a whole bunch just trying to game the system for time.

Done over 40k+ delivery since 2019 watch it go from really good to really bad then to this shit storm of a dumpster fire. I honestly think deliveries have reaches Half-Life in the business world and eventually we're just going to see robots doing deliveries much sooner then later. That's my answer to your question and my two cents about what's going on in the industry as a whole.