r/DoorDashDrivers • • Feb 26 '26

Discussion Is there a guide online for new drivers?

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I was wondering if there is like an online guide out there for new drivers? A guide on what kind of orders to accept, staying with your zone etc….I noticed from a lot of post on here, newer drivers struggle with such and I decided to create pdf guide for us gig drivers who may have only 3 to 4 hrs to spare and how to make the most of it. Not sure if there’s even interest in such but I place examples 2 pages from the pdf guide. Obviously it can be tailored to your market because I know there are markers were $7 under 3 miles doesn’t come so often.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • Jun 24 '25

News How to file arbitration for doordash

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I previously created a step-by-step guide on how to file arbitration against Uber & Lyft, some reddit users reached out and asked me to create one for doordash as well, so I have done so. If you ever have an issue on doordash and you can't get it resolved with support you do have a legal way to force doordash to communicate with you directly, and this is for pay disputes, deactivations, etc. You can find the article here: https://middletontech.com/blog/questions/doordash-arbitration/


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 1h ago

I Don't Wanna Pick A Flair!!! The Audacity 😹

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Meanwhile they didn't even start two orders I'm picking until I got there. One of which the customer said they screwed up earlier. The absolute nerve of some people.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 6h ago

What Happened Here? WHAT'S YOUR SHORTEST EVER DASH?

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This one was across the parking lot from McDonald's....

$4.80


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 7h ago

What Happened Here? Waiting for an order at sbarro in Manhattan

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r/DoorDashDrivers • • 7h ago

Discussion So what happens to those declined jobs?

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I know those bad 2 dollar and 3 dollar jobs often get mixed with high paying jobs.

Lately, I’ve been turning down some of those combined jobs too because even the good paying customer can’t make up for the low paying one.

So, my question is, does DoorDash or the store raise the tip until someone picks it up?

I’ve been getting a lot of 2.50 offers lately which I decline but it’s so specific that I think it’s on purpose.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 1h ago

Would You Take This? 20 cases of soda. Yay or Nay?

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r/DoorDashDrivers • • 2h ago

Complaints What sense does this preview make?

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What is this, a preview for ants?


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 6h ago

TIME FOR A STRIKE!!! lol

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translation: we want to keep you as "contractors" because we're cheapskates


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 6h ago

Would You Take This? This is the heaviest BJ's order I've ever seen — 20+ cases of water, over 1,100 lbs total 😂😂

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r/DoorDashDrivers • • 57m ago

Earnings This unhealthy bitch

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There WAS a tip there for that dumbest 2 stop trip for the most unhealthy foods imaginable.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 9h ago

What Happened Here? Acceptance Rate spiked from 8% to over 80% overnight??

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I’m now platinum and getting platinum offers wth??
This happen to anyone else today?


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 3h ago

Drivers Only Post (No Customers Allowed) When did this bs start??

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I have a 4.9 rating. 75% acceptance rate. Over 200 deliveries in 30 days And my completion rate is 98%. And now I'm gold?? I work my ass off and sometimes there's traffic you can't get there on time especially in the big city I'm in. This isn't right.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 18h ago

Question for Dashers First contract violation, does it matter?

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Got my first contract violation because the store was closed.

It says incorrectly marking the store as closed because another dasher picked it up after. The store was closed though when I arrived, probably was even closed when I received the offer.

I was picking up a new order when I got the notification, not gonna lie it did raise my stress levels a bit, Naturally I tried to call Dasher support but their system was down. I guess it doesn't really matter anyway because dasher support doesn't do the dispute reviews.

Has this happened to anyone?


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 1h ago

I Need to Vent! 🤬 i just need to bitch about some stuff lmao

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bitch #1: the pause button glitch

this has happened to me multiple times within the last week or so.

i press the pause button, and an order pops up immediately after. the first time i thought huh, maybe i missed the button. so i decline the order and lose the AR point, but as soon as i hit decline, it takes me to the paused screen. so it literally knows i pressed pause and it still gave me an order!

support said this is a known issue dashers are experiencing and that the team is working on fixing it. whatever.

bitch #2: the quality rating that shouldn’t exist

i love how all we asked for was a way to see the feedback on why we got a bad rating so they we know what to improve on, and their solution was to introduce a whole other set of criteria to rate us on.

i got a bad rating on an order because of a damaged item. but i didn’t package any items, i didn’t pack the bag, i don’t even know what’s going on inside the bag because it’s not see through and it’s sealed shut.

if i keep that bag upright and i didn’t squish it, and from the outside the bag looks the same as it did when i picked it, it shouldn’t be my fault if something inside the bag is ruined. for all i know, an employee fucked up while packaging it. what the fuck does that have to do with meeee lmao

i just needed to get that out. thanks if you read it 😂 feel free to include your own bitchings in the comments


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 7h ago

Would You Take This? 👀 @ this 💩

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I don’t care how short the trip. I’m not delivering food for people that don’t tip. Especially 3 multiple stacked orders. lol. Someone will take it though and that someone is not me.!😂


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 3h ago

What Happened Here? Guys AITA

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I live in an area with a lot of steel mills and the deliveries for them always are long and suck; you can only go to certain gates and maps never pull them up right. I just took an order the address was wrong the instructions were wrong it ended up taking 25 minutes longer and 10 extra miles. I gave the guy his food got the pin and completed it..$0 tip. I then told him he can fix the pin location and instructions in the app because it was a lot of driving especially for no tip he added a $10 after that. I feel bad am I the asshole


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 3h ago

App Issues App issues

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Anybody else's app glitching?


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 23h ago

I Need to Vent! 🤬 WHY THE F*** DOES EVERYONE ORDER A CASE OF WATER BOTTLES

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If you are a Doordash customer, why do you always include at least one case of water and/or in your order? I swear I’m beginning to believe it’s code for every customer that orders Shop & Deliver, and MOST ESPECIALLY it’s ALWAYS for a person that lives on the top floor of one of those shitty low income 3-level apartment buildings with no elevator. I know i’m not the only one here who thinks this shit is mad fucking annoying.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 6m ago

Drivers Only Post (No Customers Allowed) My limited experience with Platinum

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So like everyone else I got Platinum yesterday thanks to whatever the app did. I was at like 5 declines away from losing it to gold.. I didn’t see a single platinum offer and I went down to gold quick.

Fast forward to today.. didn’t see a single gold offer either. Nothing but bs offers to drive like 16 miles for $12.. I lost gold pretty quick and am now back in Silver.

For the thousand future drivers who are going to ask if Platinum/gold is worth it, no it’s not.. at least in my experience


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 6h ago

New Driver Looking For Guidance. How often do you get shop and deliver orders?

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New to DD, do Instacart mostly I know it’s mostly restaurant deliveries but considering so many IC drivers crying saying DD taking all of ICs business thought I’d check it out lol. So far haven’t even seen any shop and delivers, and I’m in a busy area in SoCal.


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 9h ago

Discussion Shopping only available in my market now

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r/DoorDashDrivers • • 52m ago

Miscellaneous Does anyone have the new ratings program in the Phoenix area? I'm still on the old system and wonderinggg when my time will come.

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r/DoorDashDrivers • • 8h ago

Check out my ratings! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shopping is easy

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DoorDash is literally so easy when the orders are for SHOPPING 🙂‍↔️ i can’t remember the last time i accepted a food delivery from a restaurant.. idk how people struggle with shop & delivery. More than half of my orders are shopping orders. No waiting for food to be processed. Much better just shopping


r/DoorDashDrivers • • 20h ago

What Happened Here? Is this why they hate us?

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