>>2508419
A buddy of mine is a courier for a small courier agency. He mostly delivers parts for medical and industrial machines. Occasionally its paperwork or something weird like an organ for transplant.
The way that the work flow goes is that he asks to be put on the "on-call" list with the agency and when a gig comes in, they call to see if he wants it. He already has it known by them that he doesn't want low paying local gigs. Only the better paying regional ones.
You can drive any type of vehicle as long as it's reliable, but a van or truck will sometimes allow you to carry a larger package and will occasionally get you a premium.
Usually the pay winds up around 1$ a mile oneway, so about $0.50 for each mile actually driven. He said he has to pay for his own fuel.
He often makes $200-250 for a ~400 mile ride. (that would be 400 miles total roundtrip, not 400 miles each way)
Sometimes he takes longer trips for bigger paychecks, but that turns into at least an overnighter so you have to figure that into the balance.
If you like going on weird random camping trips or if you have some major cities in a certain range where you have family or know people that you like to visit, then the lifestyle of this kind of gig can work out pretty well.
You wind up running a shitload of miles onto your vehicle though, so to make ~$50K you wind up putting almost 100K miles on the car.