There's also a booming business in prescription-drug delivery on the app. Walmart delivers groceries via Roadie, and airlines such as Delta and United use the app's drivers to reunite delayed baggage with its owners. Now, instead of going to the hardware store three times in a day, you can pay three delivery fees. In 2018, the Home Depot partnered with Roadie to offer same-day delivery on more than 20,000 items in select cities. There are items that UPS and FedEx either won't take or would charge a fortune to ship: a disassembled pool table, bulky artwork, a guinea pig. Roadie gigs largely fall into one of two categories. Besides, nothing says 'coming in hot' like a car that's on fire. With just two doors and a scattering of broken window glass in the passenger's footwell, the Eclipse is unfit to shuttle people with Uber or Lyft.

I signed on with DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Roadie, a so-called crowdshipping app that allows anyone to send packages in the personal vehicles of ad hoc delivery drivers. For a week in January, I was one of them. Food-delivery app DoorDash claims that more than 10,000 people join its service as drivers every week. For anyone with a car who can pass a basic background check, these gig-economy apps are an easy way to make a buck. These opportunities are brought to you by the modern economy, where jobs are outsourced to apps rather than overseas.

You can drop packages, schlep drunks home from the bar, hustle food to hungry stomachs, or transfer a guinea pig 64 miles across Georgia. Your phone's app store is brimming with ways to turn your car-no matter how crappy-into cash. Logically then, ol' Flame Job here carries a negative value.īut this liability can also print money. The wheels and tires could command a higher price if they weren't bolted to this heap. The 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse I'm driving is probably worth more as scrap than as a used car. From the March 2020 issue of Car and Driver.

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