Make money as a E-scooter wrangler

Here's the guy from Financial Wolf channel looking into, and trying, the side hustle/business of being a scooter wrangler.  With some tips from the pros, him and  a friend actually made money one night, even though they rented a U-Haul to pick up and distribute the scooters.  This was about a year ago, the job has changed somewhat since then.  

Since coming up to L.A. in 2019, I've seen the urban e-scooters all over the place.  There was Lime, Bird, Uber, and I think a couple of other scooters, for a while.  You needed a different app for each one.  Now it's down to Lime and Bird scooters in my area.  Some places, like Hollywood and downtown L.A., there are lots of them, and in some places there are only a few scooters visible, and they're more spread out.  As a guy on the streets, literally, I started seeing weird trucks coming around and picking up the scooters.  I've never talked to these guys, but I figured out they're the guys who take the scooters to be charged, and then put them back out somewhere else.  I saw one of these guys dropping off scooters in my area of the San Fernando Valley, just last night, which reminded me to look this up as a side hustle/gig job for this new blog.  

These days the scooters have replaceable batteries.  I also just learned these guys are called "juicers," who charge scooters.  So the jobs now for the juicers are to either pick up scooters and move them to different locations, and to pick up batteries at a warehouse, take them out to scooters with low batteries, and to switch out the batteries.  There are also scooters that need repairs, at times.  As the guys in the video above found out, this is physical work, scooters are heavy, and you need to pick them up, put them in a truck, and unload them later.  You also need a truck.  I've seen guys doing this job with old school Toyota and Nissan mini trucks (small pick-ups), I've seen one guy in a former tourist van with cut-out sides, and also larger pick-ups.  Juicers get paid per task they complete, somewhere around $3-$7, according to these videos.  

For those of you in smaller towns, are not familiar with these, here's the deal.  A few companies came up with battery powered, electric scooters, for people to use to get around urban areas.  To ride a scooter, people have to sign up for the phone app for that company, and put some money in their account.  Uber account holders can pay for a Lime scooter with Uber or Lime.  People scan on the handle bars of the scooter itself, to turn it on.  Then they can ride around, wherever they need to go, and leave the scooter when they're done.  There was a lot of uproar from cities about these scooters at first, but I see all kinds of people riding them now.  They have become really popular to get around urban areas these days.

Who needs this service?  Lime and Bird are the main companies at this point, at least here in L.A..  There may be other companies in other regions.  The videos I see on this gig range from about 4 years ago to about a year ago.  

Here's one more video below, the newest video I've seen.  This guy became a "logistics partner" for Lime, which included getting a business license, insurance, and all needed requirements.  This video below is a much more in in depth, a more long term look at this gig.  He's working out of Columbus, Ohio:  

How I started with Lime scooters.  How I make $500 a day without charging scooters

So... these E-scooter companies need juicers, who pick-up, charge or swap batteries, distribute, and sometimes repair scooters, on a day by day basis.  They need people to do tasks every day, seven days a week.  So there's the basics.  

If this appeals to you, watch these videos, talk to local juicers in your area, if you can, and see what the business is like in your city.  Do the research, and see if this makes sense in your area.