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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Barney Davis

Dodging traffic, collisions and stingy tippers: The exhausting world of a Deliveroo rider

Shaf Hussain

“What, it’s not even 7pm and you’re getting tired?” Shaf Hussain barks, flashing a devilish grin to me on a dreary Waterloo Bridge as we steam towards Soho for our twelfth Deliveroo pick-up of the shift.

“It’s not that I’m tired, it’s just my eyelids are closing on their own,” I explain to an uproar of incredulous laughter.

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