Expedia is a perfect example because they're doing in essence the same thing that Uber and Lyft are doing: reselling transportation services. When you book an U

Expedia is a perfect example because they're doing in essence the same thing that Uber and Lyft are doing: reselling transportation services. When you book an Uber what you're doing is informing Uber that you want to go from point a to point b. The Uber finds a third party willing to fulfill that task, and resells this service to the customer at a markup. It's exactly the same thing Expedia does, only in real time. > UberLyft don't sell services provided by third parties, they sell a service (transportation or food delivery), and it happens to be performed by third parties on UberLyft's behalf. Which is exactly why the drivers are contractors. You seem to understand that the drivers are third parties, yet are fixated on irrelevant things like revenue from bookings to try and distract from this fact. That Uber treats all of the money paid by the passengers as revenue does not alter the fact that it's drivers are contractors that set their own hours and can drive for competing services.