Can You Have Passengers While Doing Grubhub?

Grubhub is one of the most popular food delivery services to work for. If you work long hours delivering food, you might want to bring someone along to keep you company or even help out. The good news is that Grubhub doesn’t have any rules preventing you from having a passenger while you drive for them. 

Having a passenger with you while you deliver food with Grubhub can help you feel less lonely, and safer, or even make you more productive. In this article, we are going to talk about whether or not you can bring passengers on your Grubhub deliveries and why you might want to. 

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Can I bring passengers while I drive for Grubhub?

Grubhub does not officially state in the delivery driver information whether or not you can have passengers with you while you are delivering food for them. Most of their driver information is focused on customer service, improving delivery times, and more.
The general consensus amongst delivery drivers for Grubhub is that if you are making timely deliveries and getting good reviews from customers, Grtubhub has no issue with who you have in the car with you.
For this reason, many Grubhub drivers bring people along with them, whether out of convenience or intentionally.

Why would I want to bring passengers when I drive for Grubhub?

Now that you know that you can bring passengers with you while you drive for Grubhub, you may be wondering why you would want to. The answer to this is different for everyone, but there are plenty of reasons. 

Here are the 3 main reasons why you might want to bring a passenger along on your Grubhub delivery runs:

1. A passenger will keep you company

Driving around delivering food can get lonely. 

If you are delivering a lot for Grubhub, you might find yourself in the car alone for long periods of time. Podcasts and good music playlists can only last you so long before you might find yourself craving real human companionship during those long hours behind the wheel. 

You could consider bringing along a friend or significant other to chat with while you are on the road. Having someone in the car with you while you are delivering for Grubhub can help make the time go by faster and make it more enjoyable.

2. A passenger can help you feel safer

Whenever you are doing food delivery, it’s important to be mindful of your safety while you are driving for a company like Grubhub. Although you can keep yourself safe alone by being aware of your surroundings and not agreeing to deliveries that are in unsafe locations, there is still a degree of risk anytime you do this kind of work. 

This is a big reason why some people choose to bring a passenger along with them while they are doing food deliveries. Having another person in the car with you can make you feel safer because there is safety in numbers. They can help you get out of an unsafe situation should one arise and it will comfort you to know that they are there.

3. A passenger can help you be more productive

Earning money delivering food is simple math. The more orders you take, the more money you make. If you are hustling hard during your food delivery shifts with Grubhub, you may be trying to find ways to improve your efficiency and take on more orders in the same amount of time. 

This is where having a passenger with you can actually do more than just be there to hang out with you or keep you safe. If you enlist a friend or partner to actually assist with deliveries, you might be able to speed up your delivery time and take on more orders. 

The way that most delivery drivers increase their productivity with the help of their passengers is by having the passenger be the runner. They will run (or walk) into the restaurant to get the food and have them bring the food up to the door when you arrive at the delivery location. 

Can I drive and my wife deliver while doing Grubhub?

It has become very popular for husband and wife (or any other combination of significant others or friends) teams to do Grubhub delivery together. Grubhub has no restrictions on passengers, so feel free to grab your wife and bring them along with you. 

Bringing your spouse on your Grubhub deliveries can be a huge asset to your shifts because you can get more deliveries done in less time if you work efficiently together. They can be your unofficial “food runner” by picking up the food at the restaurants and bringing them up to the door when you arrive at the delivery location. 

Having your spouse with you to be the “food runner” means that you don’t have to waste time parking your car and walking up to the delivery location. This can shave a lot of time off of each delivery and free you up to take on more deliveries in a shorter amount of time, which means you can make more money. 

What are the rules about passengers for other delivery services?

Many Grubhub drivers also take on work with other popular food delivery services to make more money and add increased flexibility. Can you bring a passenger with you when you work for Doordash or Ubereats as well?
We know that Grubhub is flexible about having passengers in the car with you during food delivery shifts, but how do the other major delivery services stack up?

Doordash

Doordash is similar to Grubhub in that they do not have any specific regulations about whether you can have passengers with you. It is generally accepted for their dashers to have a passenger in the car with them while delivering food so long as the passenger’s presence doesn’t interfere with the deliveries being made. 

Uber Eats

Uber Eats is an interesting one because they are a division of the popular rideshare service, Uber. Drivers for Uber are not allowed to have passengers during their rideshare driving shifts, but this is not the case for Uber Eats drivers. 

If you are on the clock for Uber Eats, you are free to have a passenger with you if you wish. Much like Grubhub and Doordash, Uber Eats does state that the passengers should never interfere with your productivity or cause customer service issues.

Final Thoughts

There are plenty of great reasons why you may want to bring a passenger along with you when you drive for Grubhub, and the good news is that you can! You can bring a passenger along with you just to have someone to talk to, to make you feel safer when you drive long shifts or late at night, or to help you deliver faster. 

Grubhub, as well as Ubereats and Doordash, is very flexible with their drivers and will allow you to have a passenger during your delivery shifts. 

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The only caveat of having a passenger while you are doing food delivery is to make sure that they are helping, not hindering, your ability to deliver food on time and in a friendly manner.