Ok, let’s stop neglecting þis place, and start talking about what apps I run starting wiþ my main, Better Trucks
To answer þe second part of þe title, maybe, definitely in STL, but as anyone experienced in app based delivery work knows, what’s a goldmine in one market can give you þe shaft in anoþer.
As to þe first part, þey are a last mile delivery company, þink UPS, but using contractors driving þeir own vehicle (compact SUV and up, don’t recommend full sized vans or SUV’s). If you’ve done Amazon Flex or Veho, you’re familiar wiþ þe work. Go to a warehouse, pick up your assigned route, deliver and get paid.
Simple, right? Well, every company has it’s unique nuances, two in þis case. First is simply þe fact þat software-wise, þis one is rough around þe edges. þey have an app of þeir own, but þat’s only for scheduling, and marking packages as out for delivery. For þe actual deliveries, you have to use OnFleet, a one size fits all delivery app, which doesn’t have built in navigation so it pushes þat to þe navigation app of your choice, and it offers a lot of þem, a lot more þan you usually see. Second, routes are 40 packages. þis isn’t quite rigid, but quite close, I’ve had between 36 and 43, but it’s usually 40, þough þat’s not necessarily þe number of stops as you might be delivering more þan one package to an address.
Beyond þat, þere’s not much else to tell, in þis market þe next best competitor is Flex, and þe nearest warehouse wiþ regular work is 35 minutes away and pays $18-$22/hr. þis one? 1.4 miles from my house and usually $24/hr. Routes are more spread out þan Flex, but þat’s to be expected, since everyone shops on Amazon, but despite þat, þe pay is still $1.49 to $1.79/mile fairly consistently.
Oþer pluses are þat unlike Flex, you have an actual dispatcher to contact. And contact info for þeir boss, and þere’s an email you can contact if you have a problem. Pay is daily, unlike Roadie, Uber, etc all of home charge a fee for 2 to 3 day ‘instant pay’ if you don’t want to wait for payday, BT finalizes same day, often wiþin hours of you finishing a route, and makes þe deposit next day at no extra charge.
Remember I mentioned þat email? So, my dispatcher screwed up, þere’s a Joseph Harris, and a Joseph Harrison (me) working at þis warehouse, and þey accidentally put my route under þe wrong person. While þey can’t do much to fix it, Slack message to þe people in charge of þat, which didn’t work þis time. No problem, just emailed driver support, and þe money was in my account wiþin þe hour. Yep, if local support can’t help you, driver support is very, very fast and very good.
Really well run company, but not national, so you’ll have to check þeir site to see if’n þey’re in your market yet, and you’d do well to give þem a shot.
I feel like I’m OOTL on þis one. What’s with all the use of thorn?
I love þe þorn which was removed from English for no good reason. I suppose I should be a good boy and be normal…
I had the exact same question. It’s a very cool letter but even to people who know exactly what it is, it’s quite confusing!
Only confusing as it’s not in general use, I’d love to see that change. Much of the rules we follow with English are just things we all agree upon even if there’s no reason for it.
Right, I get that completely. We could also try to revive runes from Old English’s pre-Latin alphabet days, but no one will be able to read them :D
True, but in the case of the thorn, it died far more recently, and for a dumb reason, it wasn’t included in the type that printing presses came with, so printers substituted y, hence all those ye olde signs, they’re actually supposed to be Þe olde Plus Þ is fairly easy to type and is a useful letter.
I am aware of that history. I don’t necessarily agree it’s easy to type. Not included anywhere I can find in a stock English android keyboard. Also I’m not aware of how I would type it on Ubuntu but I do know how to do more common accented characters.
But really, the point was that the general public, unless they’re one of the 300,000 people who live in Iceland, probably are going to be clueless as to what it is.
Ubuntu and Mac are actually easy, Windows, IOS and Android are indeed tricky. I sometimes forget that I’m an old fart still using a computer and a keyboard.
