Gas at $5 Tips Some US Rideshare Drivers to Wrap Cars in Ads

Gas at $5 Tips Some US Rideshare Drivers to Wrap Cars in Ads
A rideshare car with ads wrapped by mobile advertisement company Carvertise in Chicago in June 2022, in a file photo acquired by Reuters on June 22, 2022. Carvertise/Handout via Reuters
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When Duana Malcolm had her blue Hyundai Sonata sedan ‘wrapped’ as a mobile advertising board, the part-time delivery driver did not expect to make as much as $200 a month.

Malcolm is one of the many rideshare drivers looking for alternate sources of income to cushion the impact of soaring gas prices and higher costs for everything from tires to servicing, as U.S. inflation touches a more than 40-year high.