Patricia Beautiful Undershorts wrote: » You need to be insured to do this. Have a traffic accident and you will not be covered with a standard motor policy.
0ph0rce0 wrote: » I do it for the craic. Have a proper day job that pays well but do it out of boredom really. Just be sitting at home doing nothing so why not. Depends on the days really and the type of place. Chinese places are always the busiest. I do 5 hours a night in a chipper. Get paid 6 quid an hour. Then you get the delivery fee for each run. Usually 2 euro to 3.50 depending on location. Monday to Wednesday are not great days. But can be anywhere from 60 to 100 quid. Can be more sometimes. On a busy day for where I do it. Which wouldn't be that many deliveries in a night maybe about 30 on a busy night with pay , delivery fees and tips about 150 euro.
Mike Hoch wrote: » Out of interest how would these thieving scumbags find out you were working on the night of the accident if you had the "wrong" insurance? The guards writing the report are hardly going to care for the reason you were on the road as long as you have your basic insurance. The vast majority of deliverymen don't wear a uniform.
Mike Hoch wrote: » I take it that when you say you're on 6 euro per hour it's on the books? I seem to recall some exception to the minimum wage where a delivery person can be paid 6 euro per hour for being on call as long as they also get paid per delivery. Would lads keeping staff off the books usually not pay an hourly, and all income would come from the delivery charge? In all these years I have had a grand total of one delivery man from Domino's who was Irish (the other night funnily enough), yet most drivers from local chippers and pizza joints are Irish (and often a bit older). I've always imagined that Domino's, being a big chain, do everything by the book and all staff are taxed which puts off lads on the dole working on the side, whereas with the chippers/ pizza lads a good few of them are off the books and claiming some form of welfare on the sly. Another I'd say about Domino's vs smaller operators, smaller operators tend to have the same two or three drivers. Whereas I don't think I've ever had the same Domino's driver twice. Whether that is because Domino's employs so many that there's a small chance of getting the same lad twice, or whether it means it employs so many that it's impossible to earn a decent coin due to over saturation and most of them feck off after a few weeks, I'm not too sure. Although I will say, I've lived in three different areas of Dublin in my life, and, while virtually all foreign, upwards of 90 percent of the Domino's lads are of Pakistani/ Bangladeshi origin (judging by appearance and the muslim names showing up on the delivery tracker). I don't know is there a specific reason, if Domino's is a closed shop for these lads only (seems to be plenty of Irish kids working on the tills/ kitchens) but delivery men from other spots are mostly Irish with a handful being East European.
0ph0rce0 wrote: » Other than a big chain like dominos I'd say 95% of takeaways do not pay for insurance or have any drivers on the books, so you just have to declare your extra income when October comes around with the tax man. I also reckon 95% of drivers do not do that. Dominos I know used to be 5 euro an hour then a per drop charge. Not sure what it is now, I reckon they cover insurance also as they have guys out on bikes delivering, well they used to anyway and I doubt the drivers were paying for it out of their own pockets, I'd say everything there is all above board.
dartboardio wrote: » Pick the right place. Popular busy places. I remember an indian place i used to work for would give them 5er an hour and 2 per delivery. On a quiet night that may be only 20 quid and you've to pay for your own petrol. On the other hand if they pay you 6 an hour and its a quiet night you're basically sitting in your car doing nothing getting paid 40 either way or similar
