Spark Driver 4+

When working for Spark Driver it can be a waiting game, sometimes you will get horrible
Offers and sometimes really good offers that pay well. Most of the time you will be driving far so you will be at the gas station twice a week which will take away from your earnings.
Your car will also take a beating driving all around which I wish I could get a delivery vehicle. Here is the thing I wish they would stop and that is giving customers 24 hours to change there tips which there will be customers who will tip bait a delivery driver ever so often. This is how they do it. Say for example you had a offer that said 57 dollars 15 stops, you so without tips your looking at 37 dollars and with the tips your looking at 57 as it says for tips 20. When your done completing those 15 trips your hoping you get what you saw in the first place right which is 57 dollars, well guess what the customer who is a tip baiter will take that 20 back as he has the 24 hour customization to do that without the slightest reason why he took it back, so then you only make 37 which I find very criminal. We are here to provide for our families and sadly we have to hope the customer that promises that tip that you see before you click on a job will pay you that tip..

Firstly let talk about the tips, I think our driver right is violated by the customers and the app itself I mean Walmart. The contract is an agreed upon price prior to the completion of the orders. Some customer I strongly believe inflate the tips knowing that when they get their order their will remove it to nothing. I call this manipulation and unethical behavior. Next thing is the location. We suggest that the trip to the store be at least fairly covered. Gas is expensive. Some customers have 3 to 4 cars yet they are expecting driver to deliver them without receiving a fair tip. If the delivery is to be free, it should not be covered at the driver’s expenses. We take our job more seriously than a 9 to 5. I personally work up to 15 hours a day sometimes even more. The other thing is the distance and may be the amount of items. Free shipping does not mean workout session for delivery drivers. Some customers exaggerate in the amount of items they order and worse those customers leave in apartments. They do not usually like coming to help carry their own orders when you are doing the back and forth move to satisfy them. On top of that they will discreetly remove the tip your thought you might receive and after all that you get more frustrated. The last updates mess up the order dispatching. We literally do not receive orders at the same rate as when we started. Something need to be done.

App is pretty user friendly, and you can actually make some pretty decent money being a Spark Driver. However, one major downside that I’ve noticed pertains to the time frame drivers are given from the moment an offer is accepted and when they check into a pick up spot. Particularly when it comes to EXPRESS/ASAP Delivery orders and the time limit you have to start the trip once you’ve accepted the order before you get a notification saying that your trip is at risk of being delivered late, and if you don’t start soon it may be reassigned.

I live about a mile from Walmart so it only takes 5 minutes to get there, and in that amount of time I’ll have already been sent 2 of those notifications…I mean, the time frame is so small that by the time I pull into a designated pick-up spot, the offer has been reassigned to another driver…or put back into the “Open Offers” queue. This small time frame is particularly unfair when you consider the fact that, even if you make it to Walmart before your offer is reassigned, the ASAP delivery isn’t even finished being shopped for so it’s usually a 30 minute wait for the order to be ready - and even after it’s been marked as “Ready” most delivery drivers get stuck waiting even longer (like 1-2 hours) before their order is brought out, or they bite the loss and just cancel the order…which means your Metrics take a negative hit but at least you might still have a shot at catching new offers and actually earning money.