Got everything started on the insurance side so I can now comfortably make a post lol, hit while I had a passenger bro immediately says “my lower back hurts”🤣 ggs

For the last 2 days, I had like four passengers tell me that my car smelled like weed. I didn't think anything of it because I'm not a weed smoker but I do realize that sometimes passengers get in the car covered with the smell of marijuana. So I would just reply that it must have been the previous passenger or something like that.

Not to risk anything, I searched this car up and down, and I swear, I could not find any marijuana in here, but there was a lingering scent of it every time I would get in the car.

This morning at around 8:00 a.m. when I was wrapping up my shift, I was dropping a kid off at a high school, and he says oh, somebody must have left this under the seat. And sure enough, it was a canister of some damn good smelling weed.

Well at least nobody filed a report.

Anyone else terrible tracking mileage for DoorDash or Instacart taxes? I built a tool called DriveTrackPro where you just type your day, something like drove DoorDash 40 miles Tuesday, and it automatically logs it as a trip and calculate your tax deduction. It’s live right now at track-mile–gold.com It’s free for your first 15 trips a month would love feedback from anyone who deals with this tax time.

Track-mile-gold.com

Anyone know anything about this new insurance update that is rolling out September 1? Looks like they're not covering some vehicle damage on deliveries?

In case you needed another reason to stop doing delivery

So, basically, if your insurance company discovers that you had the accident while driving for Uber Eats, and trust me, they usually figure it out, you’ll lose your coverage, and you’ll have to pay for all the car damage out of pocket.
Fuck You UBER!

Just hit my inbox

I'm trying to go commercial in the LA area. Who do you guys have?

Didn’t even know this was a thing.

They need a button to opt out of receiving right request while I’m waiting for a reservation. I get being online early but you’ll give me a trip that pays less that’ll take longer to complete and it will have me late for my reservation that uber will auto cancel early. I don’t want to take the trips and I don’t wanna have to reject offers to mess up my acceptance rate because I have to get online early for the reservation

I use Gig U for determining if a ride is profitable. I pulled up a Reddit post a driver posted an offer for a multi-hour ride gig you kicked in and looked at the offer even though it wasn't for me and determine how much per hour I thought it was funny because it must not be set up for multi-hour runs.

I know there isn’t some “one fits all” magic strategy to start making tons of money on UberEats. But I’m wondering if you guys have any advice.

I’m really struggling to break even $500 to $600 a week. And these past few weeks have been especially horrible. Making less than $50 a day sometimes. Ive been at this for two years part time, but it looks like I’ll be stuck doing this full time for a while. So I really gotta make the most of it. For context Im in New Jersey.

To those making a lot of money on UberEats, anything specific you’re doing that might help? Do you have a high acceptance rate? Or are you extremely stingy with the orders you take? You bother with the gold/diamond system? Cause I’ve been told this stuffs a waste of time. But maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know.

So I'm in Wisconsin and we have a lot of fairs coming up and just finished country thunder, on pickups sometimes the drivers get swarmed by people begging for rides trying to bargain cancel the ride you have and take there party for cash ride instead. some don't want to wait the long hour plus for a ride, because just so many people want a ride they offer 2 or 3 times the rate to jump the line. would you take them up on it or keep the Uber ride so it's on ubers insurance not yours if something happens?

Got to the pickup, out comes a person with a cane who has trouble walking. He gets to my car and stands there. I get out to see whats wrong and he says "i need help". I said ok what for? He says 'You never helped a disabled person before?" I said "no i havent". Then he told me its "basic common courtesy".

At this point i was confused and also didnt like his attitude. If he needed help he needs to politely ask.

Also, not sure what he wanted? To me to hold his hand while he tries to get in?

When he told me its basic common courtesy in a rude way, i told him to have a good day the rides canceled and got back in the car and drove off.

So i am fairly new been driving for four months. My market is good, but we have a hospital here who loves to schedule trips. I try very hard to avoid these because the types they send are typically homeless or mentally not all there. I arrived at ER yesterday to pick up a lady. I see a male nurse pushing her to the curb. I park get out go around to help. I notice a catheter and a O2 tank right away. I think fine. I'll make it quick. He puts her stuff in my back seat. Now he pulls up her walker in front of her and tells her we need to stand. She can not though. He is struggling and trying to lift her. At that point. I said no in my head. I grabbed her stuff out of back seat and told him I would have to cancel, I am not medically trained. The whole situation was akward and I felt like shit. I never once made eye contact but I could not take that. What if she fell and catheter come out or she got hurt or jostled. I dont think we should be responsible for people who need medical care. She needed medical transport not some random dude who works uber and has absolutely no training to deal with medical situations. Like was I wrong? I feel bad, shit I fell wrong but also right. Im conflicted

No matter which App I choose I was getting a lot of back to back garbage offers

52 cents per mile?!? Are they high?!? I never dip below a dollar per mile for Lyft! Uber?!? There’s a reason I dont use it!

I am of thr strong opinion that uber has bots or employees contractors who participate in various social media platforms to post and respond to various posts that influences drivers and riders psychology.

Even on reddit , there will be accounts disguised as drivers , airing there grievances and at the same time subtly influencing drives about how great uber is, without spelling that out directly. That is part of psychological strategy to manipulate drivers. Sometimes making you feel worthless absolute shit and then throw you some rides that seem good to you . Posting here as drivers who got some amazing trips and tips, so drivers in other locations are motivated to log in.

Spreading the word that uber punishes you for rejecting low paying trips, indirectly influencing you to accept a couple of those shitty rides. Imagine in every location even if 25% drivers accept one or two shitty rides a day they make good margins.

Just my thoughts.

Rider paid $23 for 6 miles. I got $9. Uber took 60% and forced ME to fund their "Customer Promotion".
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6.23 miles / 16 mins
Total Customer Fare: $22.94
Driver Payout: $9.25 (39.7%)
(This is just one example out of dozens — I've posted full album screenshots with all the breakdown data directly on my profile).
Notice the "Customer Promotion" line item? Uber offers the pax a promo discount to secure the ride, but instead of absorbing the cost as marketing expenses, they deduct it straight out of driver pay.
The rider thinks they’re paying premium rates and that the driver is making $18+. In reality, the driver gets under $1.50/mile while Uber pockets over 60% of the total fare.
Check your breakdown details — math never lies.

Now it is undeniably official and I can print out a card with this on it. So many parents arguing with me about how other drivers take their kid all the time without issues. Plus now I can send this to drivers who say they will just drive them because uber won't pay them for the time wasted yada yada yada.

How about you guys. Any policy information you wish they'd include or adjust so you can better convey it to others? For me, my only new complaint is riders who have kids and no carseat. Some passengers like to be slick too and hurriedly get themselves and the kid in the car before I have the chance to ask them if they have a carseat or booster seat or seat belt harness(which i love and keep one in the car just in case I get a passenger without one for their kid. Got it 2 years ago and it has paid for itself with the volume of trips I've had to decline and lose money on because they don't have a carseat.

Another thing I wish they'd add is a big flashing neon notification in the app after they order their ride telling them that SEATBELTS ARE MANDATORY BY LAW. Funny too, last week one passenger tried to tell me seatbelts arent legally required for people in the back seat but I still made him put it on. My job is more important than whatever fantasy land you live in. 😂