[michaelt]

A friend of mine worked for a high quality delivery company in my country. None of this pay-per-delivery, bring-your-own-car stuff; they have hourly paid drivers on stable predictable shifts, driving company vans with company insurance, overtime pay if a route ran long - and a biometric clocking-in system.

It turns out a driver can pick up their delivery van, drive around the corner and hand it over to their buddy (an undocumented migrant, who can't get the job themselves), then go work another job, and meet up again at the end of the shift to return the van. Then they split the wages.

Even without the 'independent contractor' stuff, it is extremely difficult for a delivery company to stop drivers from doing this.

If there are requirements for replacement drivers that their substitute won't meet they can simply not report the substitution, instead sharing a login or sharing a phone.

[thfuran]

>It is extremely difficult for a delivery company to stop drivers from doing this.

But it's extremely easy to not build in features explicitly to facilitate it.