The average car owner spends more than $5000 a year on their vehicle. Why not make that money work for you? There are many ways to earn an extra $3000 or more per month with your car, including rideshare driving, using it as a taxi, renting out seats in your vehicle (Uber), delivering goods (Flexport), and getting paid to drive someone else’s car.
The best part about earning these additional funds is that they can be made while still keeping up with all of your regular obligations! Check out this blog post to learn how you can start making money with your car today!
Car Sharing
If you have a car and use it to commute to work, run errands or go out on the weekends, chances are you can make some extra money by sharing your car as a rental.
Peer-to-peer car sharing is a service that enables you to list your car for rent and make money while still keeping your vehicle available for use. You can set the fee and availability calendar yourself, accepting bookings at any time and from anywhere in the world.
Once you’ve listed your car online, it’s quickly verified by Peer to Peer Car Sharing and featured on their website. All you have to do is answer messages from your renters, coordinate the pick-up and drop-off location, and even meet with them if necessary (to establish paperwork).
Turo is a peer-to-peer car-sharing service that allows users to rent out their personal cars. The company is based in San Francisco and has been operating since 2009. Drivers set the rates for their vehicles, with Turo taking 25 percent from each transaction.
Getaround is the second biggest peer-to-peer carsharing service. It allows users to rent out their vehicles by the hour or day, creating additional income potential. The company is based in San Francisco and has been operating since 2009.
Rideshare
Ridesharing is a form of carpooling where people share a ride in someone’s personal car to and from work or other events. The company Lyft has been operating since 2012 and serves cities across the U.S., including New York City, Chicago, and Seattle.
You can also make money through an Uber driver referral program.
Rideshare services are most likely to be used by people who live in highly populated areas – where there are many options for daily transportation.
Uber: Uber is an on-demand service. You can get a ride from any driver who’s connected to the app and available nearby.
Lyft: Rideshare companies like Lyft also connect people in need of transportation services with drivers, but they may be more likely used by city inhabitants who do not own cars and need reliable access to a vehicle.
Snappcaar: Snappcaarr is a ride-sharing app that provides on-demand rides in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The company was founded in 2008 and operates in more than 200 cities across North America.
Food Delivery
With the rise of UberEats, GrubHub, and other food delivery apps, more people are making money by delivering food. If you have a car, there are opportunities to make money while working in your spare time.
DoorDash: The website DoorDash is a service that delivers restaurant food in your area. You would be an independent contractor for the company and could choose to work when you’d like, how long you’d like, or depending on availability.
Instacart: Instacart is a grocery delivery service that allows you to earn up to $25 an hour while delivering groceries.
You choose the hours you want to work and what types of grocery items you’re willing to deliver.
Postmates: Postmates is a courier service that allows you to earn up to $25 an hour while delivering food, packages, and other items from local stores.
The company pays over $12 an hour in cash or through their “Postmates Unlimited” program, which offers discounted hourly subscription plans.
Grubhub, and Grubhub Campus:
GrubHub is a food delivery website and app that allows you to earn money by delivering food. They also offer a service that is specific to college campus deliveries.
Find Parking Spots
Parking spot finding services are used in high-density areas where parking spots are not easily found.
Get paid to find parking! Instead of circling the block, you can make money with ParkingPanda.
SpotHero was formally known as Parking Panda and is a service that allows property owners to list their unused or occupied parking lots and garages to drivers looking for hourly/daily/monthly parking.
Amazon Flex
Amazon Flex is a package delivery service. Drivers are paid $18-25 an hour to deliver packages out of their own vehicles.
If your car has four doors and isn’t older than 1997, it will qualify.
Roadie
Roadie is a crowdsource courier service that schedules drivers to carry freight across the country.
Drivers can sign up to be available as a Roadie driver and set their own rates.
Wrap Your Car
You can make money with your car by allowing it to be an advertisement. Revenue from the advertising space on your vehicle goes straight to you, and they can also provide referral payment if someone you refer becomes a paid advertiser.
Have you been looking for a way to earn more money? Have you been on the lookout for ways to make an extra buck with your car, but can’t seem to find any good ones?
If so, I have some great news for you. You can start making money today with this one simple action: wrapping your car. It doesn’t require much time or effort and the profit is great!
Carvertise works with drivers, and advertisers to help place ads on cars. Drivers receive a commission for each referral and can earn additional money by participating in contests and promotions.
Carvertise offers a wide range of ads to choose from, including bumper stickers, window clings, door magnets, car flags, roof signs, and more.
Wrapify
Wrapify is a wrap advertising company that allows drivers to make money by renting out their cars as rolling advertisements. Drivers sign up for the program and can choose which areas they’d like their car to be on, such as an office parking lot or main street.
The Wrapify team will then contact advertisers in the area who are looking for a targeted audience. If a company is interested in having the car wrapped with their advertisement, then drivers will receive 30-35 percent of the revenue from that month.
FreeCarMedia
Car owners can sign up with FreeCarMedia and share their vehicle with advertisers looking to grab the attention of commuters. The advertiser covers the cost of running the ad, and drivers receive a portion of that revenue as payment.
FreeCarMedia focuses on paid advertisements for car sharing as opposed to paid search results. Drivers who participate do not have to pay a monthly fee and can use the platform as often as they’d like.
CarWraps
Car owners can sign up with CarWraps and allow their car to be part of the company’s rotation of advertisements.
Ads on cars last around three months, and drivers receive a portion of that revenue based on how many times their vehicle is displayed throughout that time period.
Other Ways To Sell Your Car For Cash There are plenty of other ways to sell your car that may require some effort on your part. The options listed below are in no particular order, though contacting a junkyard is typically the easiest way to go about it because they’ll do most of the work for you.
Haul Junk
The Haulaway business model is to connect those that have junk with those who don’t want it. If you’re willing to haul away other people’s junk, then you can earn up to $500 for a single trip. If you have a truck or SUV, hauling junk can be a great way to earn money.
Help People Move
While this could be seen as hauling, we’re going to separate it because moving is a specialized service that requires specific training and may even require equipment you don’t have.
Dolly.com is a platform that connects people who need help moving with others who are willing to help.
Lugg is a moving service that connects movers with people who need to be relocated. At Lugg, you can make up to $2.5k per week as a mover by being active, interacting with new people, and earning money!
Pick Up Kids
HopSkipDrive is an app created to help parents find safe, trustworthy drivers to pick up their kids after school. Drivers must pass a background check and have an average of three stars or higher in order to be added to the network.
Become a Courier
GoShare.com is an app that allows people to hire someone with a truck or SUV to help them transport items. Drivers on the site get to set their own rates and work when it’s convenient for them.
Deliver Pets
CitizenShippers.com finds drivers to deliver pets from one place to another. This could be a great side job, as pet owners are typically passionate about their animals and tend to have disposable income that they’re willing to spend on them.
Get Paid To Shop
Shipt is an app similar to Instacart, but it’s available in more cities around the U.S. Drivers are paid to shop for items at local stores on behalf of clients who need groceries delivered. The delivery fee is included in the order total, and drivers also receive a percentage of that as income.
Friend a Senior Citizen
Papa Pals support the overall health and quality of a senior citizen. Being a Pal means you’re making a difference in someone’s life. More than 65 percent of members reported feeling less lonely after spending time with a Pal.
