Live in SoCal (Or NorCal We Operate Up There Too) and Want an Easy Part Time Night Job that Pays $20-$30+ an Hour? Thistle Health Inc. Needs More Delivery Drivers! · 6:38am Mar 28th, 2021
Live in SoCal (Or NorCal We Operate Up There Too) and Want an Easy Part Time Night Job that Pays $20-$30+ an Hour? Thistle Health Inc. Needs More Delivery Drivers!
Hello, my name is Bryan, and I work around 16 hours a week delivering healthy food all over SoCal in the middle of the night. I’ve noticed my routes having more stops lately and that’s because Thistle keeps growing as more people discover our delicious food delivery! (Sometimes us drivers get extra food and it really is super healthy and yummy.).
Our SoCal homebase is right off the 710 in Long Beach and we have shifts ranging from 4 hrs to 7 hrs from San Diego to Santa Barbara between the hours of 7pm and 7am, depending on the route. Routes will usually have around 18 to 35 bags but the short ones average low 20s and long ones high 20s. Pay is $15/hr plus 56¢/mile plus a few other bonuses and averages out to around $20 an hour to $30 an hour (or more) depending on if you’re doing short compact routes (LA, OC) or long spread-out ones (Inland Empire, Ventura, etc.).
Unlike Amazon you actually have time to take bathroom and food breaks, and we have rescue drivers in case you get lost or your car breaks down or you’re just running behind so it isn’t a high stress job at all. It’s food not people, so you don’t have to spend time and money keeping your ride immaculate; I’m not going to lie; my car is a fucking mess. And it’s at night so other than at the very start or end of certain shifts, THERE IS NO TRAFFIC!!!! Seriously, I was a Lyft driver for three years and over 5,000 rides, and not having to constantly dodge cars and pedestrians and take an hour to go ten bumper-to-bumper miles while barely making minimum wage is so fucking nice.
This is honestly far and away the best job I’ve ever had, and as an actor, they are super flexible with working my shift schedule around any late night or early morning gigs that come up. The dispatch crew are all chill and head dispatcher Lanze is super relaxed and cool. We take our job getting healthy food to people seriously, but we don’t stress about it. You can listen to music or podcasts or sit in silence, and if you have a friend or partner or relative you enjoy hanging out with, y’all can do it together as a duo. All in all, it pays well, is flexible, and other than very occasional tricky deliveries to overly complex apartment complexes or bad reception when delivering to hippies and bougie fucks way up in the canyons, it’s honestly quite easy.
Shifts are Sunday and Wednesday evenings and Monday and Thursday early mornings. Here’s a sample of what my schedule looks like; I live in Van Nuys:
Sunday: 7pm to ~10:30pm South Bay
11pm to Monday 5 or 6am Santa Barbara (sometimes you finish a good bit early.)
Don’t do Wednesday shift anymore because of acting
Thursday: Midnight to 5 or 6am Thousand Oaks, Moorepark, Malibu, etc.
So yeah, if this sounds like something you’re interested in doing between 4 and 20 hours per week, here are the requirements:
Have a working car of some sort. I drive a little 1999 CNG Honda Civic that has barely any trunk space because of the Compressed Natural Gas tank and I’m fine. You can stack the bags; the food containers are sturdy. Just know you’re going to put a lot of miles on it and use your own car insurance. (Thistle does cover workers comp stuff though if anything happens to you.)
Have a smartphone. So you can see where you’re delivering food to. Weirdly enough I actually find Apple Maps works best though I still use Waze to get home afterwards.
Don’t be a dumbass. Don’t excessively speed, ask for a rescue if you are too tired to safely drive, don’t steal the food you’re delivering, etc. I don’t think they particularly care if you do drugs off the clock just obviously don’t be tripping while driving. I will say my legally-prescribed ADHD meds help me stay awake though.
Pass a background check, I think? I don’t remember the details just that the onboarding process was pretty simple.
And that’s pretty much it. We use an app called OnFleet for deliveries/routes and PayCom for shift and pay stuff. Get paid every two weeks; pretty straightforward. Unless you’re extremely frugal it probably shouldn’t be your only source of income, but if you’re about that multiple streams of income gig economy lifestyle, it’s perfect.
So yeah if this sounds like something you’d be interested in, text Thistle Dispatch at (562) 222-4925 and tell them Bryan Chandler (that’s me) sent you and you’re interested in being a delivery driver. Lanze or one of the other dispatchers will shoot you an application and schedule an interview. If driving’s not your thing, you can see what other positions are open at https://www.thistle.co/careers/ . If you have more questions please feel free to text me at (714) 496-3119. Hope to see you in Long Beach picking up deliveries soon!
Well, I would like an easy part time night job that pays 20-30 USD an hour... but in addition to having neither a motor vehicle nor a license to operate one, I'm on the other side of the continent.
Ah, and looking at the requirements, not smartphone either. So, uh, yeah, I don't think I'll be applying.
I'm glad the job's going so well for you, though; good luck with it going forward! And if someone who does meet the requirements for the job sees this and benefits from it, hey, thanks for sharing it, too. :)
I love that this thing starts off very professional (pretty much paid advertisement schlock) and then slowly changes course to end on "You can do drugs!"
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Pretty on brand for me tbh this is the most writing I’ve done in a while sadly
Question: Do you have a dashcam yet? Because I've been looking at the Garmin mini which runs about a hundred bucks. (and it seems as if a dashcam would be pretty useful to have in a delivery job)
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I really need to get one but as of now I have no advice unfortunately google would probably be your best friend