The food delivery world is open to a range of abuses.
These can bring potential danger to the doorstep of every customer who buys a home delivery meal. And the increasing malpractice around rented-out accounts also leaves the drivers open to exploitation, including modern slavery for desperate immigrants.
The Daily Record today tells how accounts for Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo are being rented out for about £70 a week. Big courier companies merely sit back and tell us that the use of substitute drivers is the legal right of all couriers, as long as they personally ensure the stand-in is vetted.
