Do they? The taxi companies in my small tourist town don't seem to have problems with reliable drivers. Makes me think that there is a retention problem with Uber-style work environments more than an inherent problem with people who drive for a living.
Let me speak as someone who was a delivery driver for over 10 years for an array of different restaurants.
With advent of ubiquitous GPS navigation came a wave of some the dumbest most functionally inept people I have ever encountered. There was a time when you had to be able to read a map and plan routes. But as soon as GPS showed up, anyone who could drive and enter and address in their phone was good to go making way more than other high school dropout work.
The biggest issue though is drug addicts. Lots and lots of drug addicts. It's an easy money job that you can smoke up/snort up/shoot up while doing. These guys are shameless and will be high off their ass driving around.
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Do they? The taxi companies in my small tourist town don't seem to have problems with reliable drivers. Makes me think that there is a retention problem with Uber-style work environments more than an inherent problem with people who drive for a living.
Let me speak as someone who was a delivery driver for over 10 years for an array of different restaurants.
With advent of ubiquitous GPS navigation came a wave of some the dumbest most functionally inept people I have ever encountered. There was a time when you had to be able to read a map and plan routes. But as soon as GPS showed up, anyone who could drive and enter and address in their phone was good to go making way more than other high school dropout work.
The biggest issue though is drug addicts. Lots and lots of drug addicts. It's an easy money job that you can smoke up/snort up/shoot up while doing. These guys are shameless and will be high off their ass driving around.