The Advent of the Lifestyle
The vision of a courier driver is usually one of a busy worker with a van stacked full of documents and parcels, employed by a transport company to deliver a certain number of parcels a day. You probably wouldn't think of someone in their own car, working odd hours in their spare time on a specific route. But this is the life of a so-called 'lifestyle courier' - the driver who works part-time and fits their parcel deliveries in around their other commitments. How many people work like this? Of course, this is a very small group of people. It is estimated they only account for fewer than 10% of all the drivers working in the industry today. However, for some, this type of courier driver business is the only way they could do a job like this. A mum might fit in some parcel deliveries during the day while her kids are at school for example. Many other people take on this type of work part-time to earn some extra cash, while others do it as an additional stream of income. So...