In gig economy delivery work, successful route optimization requires balancing multiple factors including payment amount, distance traveled, toll costs, and weather conditions to maximize net earnings. Workers should select routes that offer good pay relative to total costs (tolls, fuel, time) rather than just highest payment, and should monitor weather patterns to complete deliveries efficiently while maintaining safety.
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Rainy Day And Still Made Over $300 On RoadieAdded:
What's going on, guys? Welcome back to the channel. Today is Saturday, May 23rd, and we're starting the day off with a route from Roadie XD.
Surprisingly enough, these routes are actually really, really good this morning. There was a route I was tempted to take. It was for like 200 $22, but it was going into New York City. So, I'm like, h, let me see if I can get a route that's uh close to $170 that's staying in New Jersey. Because if I were to take that route that that was going into NYC, and I would have to pay like 30 something dollars in tolls just to get there and back to New York to Jersey plus gas. So, I actually did get a really good route, probably the best route they had up here at the time. So, this route is 16 deliveries, but 14 stops, 81 miles for $16,221.
It would be nice if I could get another route that's going in the exact same direction because lately I haven't been able to get any any like two or three routes at a time. Uh, it's only one, but some people are able to get two routes.
I'm apparently just not there's one of them that can't. So, yeah. Uh, we got about 25 minutes to get to the XD dock.
And unfortunately, we have another rain rainy day today. It's going to be raining like all day. It's already starting. I'm not looking forward to that. But hey, I got to get this money.
Hopefully, I can make like 250 today.
So, let the day begin. All right, we are here.
See what the line is looking like.
One, two, three people.
Apparently, the best day to do Road HD is on Saturday and Sunday.
All right, bro. All right. So, this lineup was much much better than this entire week was probably because uh the manager is not here. But, um yeah, it is starting to rain heavier and it's getting cold and I hate the cold. So, I obviously got the heat on right now. I think it's like 50 something degrees.
Yeah. And rain is going to be getting heavier throughout the day. So, I'm trying to make as much money as quickly as possible. I see some curry orders coming out. So hopefully while I'm down, cuz I think I'm going to like Lakewood.
Hopefully while I'm down there, I can get some curry orders that are going back up to uh my location. All right, y'all. So this is what we're looking like. We got 1 2 3 four boxes, rig boxes, tires, bunch of small boxes, and filters. Perfect. 37 minutes of the first drive. Let's go. All right, y'all.
So stop number one at 10:35. And of course, it's got to be one of the heavier boxes I got in here. Question is which one?
I think it is this one.
It Yeah, that's it.
I hope they don't think that I'm going to be carrying this upstairs with them.
There we go.
Damn, this rain is really coming down.
All right. Um, just put it right there. Off to the next. And stop number five at 11:02. And here we got three packages.
Got one, two, and three.
Moving through this route pretty quickly.
Right there. And stopped them at 10 at 12:30.
Got another heavy one.
I think it is.
Is it this one? No, it's not this one.
Yep, that's the one.
This is a 77. Huh? I don't know.
Oh, I guess it is 77 times.
That's not too bad.
All right, we put this on this side.
Okay, four more to go. Three more to go, actually. All right, y'all. Last delivery at 103.
This is kind of funny. This person put their name for the delivery as mama. M O M M A.
So, people don't like to use the real names. Hold on.
All right, we'll pop that there. This one will fly away.
We out of here. All right, y'all. Next job up is also on roadie. Picking up from a tractor supply picking up uh 22 items that weigh 50 lbs each. This one says that is required a trailer, but I you don't need no damn trailer for this.
Probably bags of bird food or something like that. But here's the thing that surprised me. I'm very far away from this place. like it's going to take me almost an hour to get to get to this pickup. Yet, I still got it. So, I guess I'm the only one here that's um trailer certified. All right, so we got 53 minutes to get to the pickup. Let's go.
All right, y'all. Finally here. App says we're picking up bird food and dog food. Dog food is actually the heavy stuff. All right, cool. Okay, so this is what we're picking up.
I have no idea why this required a trailer, but okay.
>> I just need you to close the door so I can go ahead.
>> You're welcome.
That's the heavy stuff.
Okay, we got 14 minutes of the drop off and Roie tried to give me a an add-on from Best Buy going 15 m 13 hours. Like, no, I'm not taking that. All right, let's go. All right, so we I think I'm here at the drop off. Problem is I called the person three times. It rings once and then it just disconnects.
I don't know what's up with that. I don't even know if this is the right place cuz there's this place and then there's another place back there.
Neither one of them are open. Yeah, this one's closed.
Let's see.
Whatever they got going on down there closed.
I might have to just take this back to the store cuz I can't even get in contact with this person.
Okay, so someone just showed up cuz I was about to go back to the store, but they talking about they want me to wait here 10 minutes. I'm like, I'm not doing that. So, it's all the way in the back.
All right, let's go get this stuff dropped off.
Okay, here.
>> Yeah, I called twice.
>> I did call. Uh, this is what happens when I call.
It just disconnects.
>> That's not my number, though.
>> That's the number uh this app has for you because they won't connect it directly to you.
but it just goes disconnected.
All right, dropped that off. Gave me a $20 tip. So, that turned into a $60 order. Awesome. Um, still pretty far from home. So, I'm going to see if I can get maybe one more order that's going in my direction. If not, then 220. I'm cool with that. Well, we'll see. Actually, I'm headed back to the Roi XD dock because the routes just came out at like 3:00 and like the these routes seem to come out like randomly throughout the day. Know there's no like set time. So, you got to make sure that you keep your eyes on this map. I got a route for 16 deliveries, 15 stops, 49 miles for $110, which would bring my total for today up to $330.
Awesome. Probably will be come back out here tomorrow. Hopefully, it's much better weather because it's just drizzling throughout the entire day. All right, we got 25 minutes to get to the dock. Let's go. All right, back at the dock. Not a line in sight. That is unbelievable. Damn. I need to come out and work on Sundays more often. This is crazy.
Well, I was wrong about the line part.
There was definitely a line. Everyone was just lined up inside.
All right, so at least I already got my door. It's been like 10 minutes, so not too bad. All right, let's get this day over with. All right, we finally getting up out of here. Yo, I actually had to ask them to switch doors because there was two people in front of me and they had like a whole bunch of doors open.
I'm like, let me just pull my stuff right here.
>> Turn left on.
>> They said as long as I went to the back, I'm good. Uh, got a few heavy things like a fridge and a um a lawn mower.
Electric lawn mower. Cool. 40 minutes to the first drop. Let's go. All right, first drop at 509. Pretty sure that's why it's going to take a while. Might not have been from the air box.
We have this one. And they're doing construction right at the front. So, I don't know how the hell they're going to get this package.
>> 16. Yeah.
There you go. All right.
Okay. All right. Stop number five at 606. And the rain is coming down. It's getting cold.
I heard finishing. What's going on here?
Set the door lock.
All right. Stop number 10 at 6:22.
And unfortunately, I have no service.
There we go. It just came back up.
Jeez, I hate this.
When there's no subs, there's no use in this app at all.
Let me pop it right there.
All right, y'all. Last stop at 6:53.
And then the rain is really starting to get hot out here, so I'm going to have to end it right here. So, hope y'all enjoy this video. $330 today. Not going to be working today with some of this project.
Pop that right there.
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