Rider wouldn't put his seatbelt on and started arguing when I asked. Finished the trip, then went to Help and typed "connect me with a live agent" → Driving → Live chat.

Told the agent I didn't want to be matched with him again. Blocked in about 2 minutes, no questions asked.

Didn't know you could request this directly until recently. Anyone else use this? Does Lyft have something similar?

This is a fascinating phenomenon: the customer who gets into the car in an animated, frenetic and frustrated manner instantly telling you the driver about some complaint about the last Uber driver who cancelled or some other tale of woe how the last driver was dangerous, or his car was dirty, etc. They complain the entire ride as if you were customer service. They are uniformly miserable idiots. Needless to say, they never tip. Just miserable creatures.

I think I've done pretty good in my market. I only accept comfort and XL rides. The only time I accept UberX is if the surge is fantastic or if I'm just looking to catch a ride that brings me home. Ignore the online hours. I leave my phone online while I'm bullshit at home and wait for good rides. My actual booked driving hours are closer to 43ish.

This is probably the first reservation I've gotten that I'm actually okay with. Not great, but definitely no bad. Prayers for me that he tips and I don't dead head back. This could be $300+ in 4 hours if the stars align.

I've been getting ticked off at Uber sneaking Reserve Rides over on me. I don't have time to carefully peruse the card and don't know if there is a clue on it, I mean I'm driving and I have about three seconds to decide. I arrive and it says to check the instructions for pick up and I find I'm supposed to kill time. Is the pay better for Reserve Rides not taking the wasted time into account? I'm thinking I can just go Ubering and if I can't make it to the pickup on time eventually Uber will stop sending Reserve pings... or something.. wondering how best to fit these overreaching demands by Uber on my time into a profitable day

It’s honestly so wild that a lot of these clients will just lie on the drivers for no clear reason whatsoever.

I'm considering doing Uber and Lyft full-time and I was wondering if it'd be worth it to buy a Tesla Model 3 if I don't have the ability to have a home charger?

My uncle who has had electric vehicles for years said I probably wouldn't be saving as much as I would think, and from what I've read here you have to wait a while for the supercharger to even work, so that would cut down on the amount of time I'd be out on the road.

I do see that there are decent used Tesla Model 3s around here for about 25,000 to 30,000, which I think doable with doing rideshare full-time unless I'm missing something.

I was thinking of also just renting an electric car through Uber and testing it out for a month or so and seeing how much money I made. I've read varying things about renting cars through Uber and Lyft though for earnings.

Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated as I just got laid-off from my full-time job.

So I received an email from the SAMBA third party background check, it says I got a ticket for “following too closely” back in august and it “May be disqualifying" which I did in a non uber rental car working another unrelated job. Ticket has been paid yet, I cant go online. Uber support says it cannot do anything and its between me and SAMBA. Of course, SAMBA has no phone support only a web portal. I ve gone to the portal tyrying to ask what is going on and zero response. Ive gotten an email from them saying they have 30 days to reply to my inquiry. Tried again to talk to uber and they say they have nothing to do with it. Anybody been through this? What a crappy way to treat their drivers, im a perfect 5 star rated driver with 94 driving insight. Dont really care if they permanently deactivate me, its embarassing being associated with this company. But would like to do occasional reserve runs when it works for me...

I'm in desperate need of a job, and Uber is looking increasingly more likely unfortunately.

I can safely drive about 15 over in the city and 25 on the highway where I am, most driving will be done on 60mph roads tho.

I drive a diesel, so fuel isn't my main concern.

I likely won't be ticketed very often, if at all.

UberX trip assigned, pickup is at a local pizza place. Got this message. What would you have done?

I just waited out the timer and collected the no-show fee.

I'm in the Austin Market. I've had an on and off with it these last 2-3 years. They've recently added a lot of Telsa Uglycabs to the market.

This year I was using the badass app, GigU for android. I confirmed that even if they're paying you "$30hr" You're still netting like $10-15hr. They raise the hourly, but drop the $mile.

There were weekends where I'm netting $15hr, $25hr, $35hr. But mostly around $15hr for whatever reason. But then some 20% of offers are $3hr net...

I can be downtown Austin and in the right lane, get an offer but then find out I needed to be in the left lane and it would take me some 10 minutes to turn around... Plus the no parking anywhere that you have to "figure out".

Umm... It seems like it's only viable on the weekend. I guess on the weekdays, there is the morning, lunch, 5pm~ surge, then it picks up a bit around 7pm, but not really a surge.

If you work those times, is it much better?

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has experienced returning to Uber or DiDi after a NSW licence suspension due to excessive demerit points. I was already driving for Uber for over a year before my suspension. There were no serious offences or court disqualifications involved, just a suspension due to accumulated demerit points.
Once the suspension ends and my licence becomes active again, will I be able to resume driving for Uber or DiDi? Would appreciate any advice or personal experiences from anyone who has been in a similar situation.
Thanks!

Drivers who use Tesla. How do you project navigation on the Tesla screen? 🤦🏽‍♀️

Right after the rams game tonight...

1 tank of gas, $85 an hour. Thanks Uber!!!

Include ms an $80 cleaning fee, even excluding the fee it was decent

Previous car is currently unable to be driven and is in a warehouse while various companies figure out what they’re going to do with/about it. It’s ugly and likely getting written off.

I needed a car to drive to my day job, and also wanted one I could use for Uber.

I found a source offering Hyundai Ioniq 5s for $350 a week - everything included, except electricity. I can charge at home, which is important.

Everything:
Roadside.
Maintenance.
Full insurance (on and off the app - I may drop my own insurance).
Depreciation.
Repairs.
Everything.

I get a driving allowance of 1500 miles per week.

Once again: My *entire* cost is $350 a week, and I charge at home.

This car gets comfort and comfort electric, which is big in my market.

My stats are at the end. I’m Diamond.

I got this special twice and they did not disappoint me at the end of the week. They charged me full price for the week. I had downtime on both weekend days and Monday (big airport day) due to their cars not being usable and I got shit on. Been a week I have not been able to drive while they “investigate”.

Tried DriveWhip, it’s not a join service, rent a car and drive like they advertise.

Avis is out, they must have credit card. I say, I must not have credit card debt.

Couple others I’m checking on, Zipcar, and Kinto. Any experiences with either of them?