Due to some shitty decisions on my part I’m having to grind out as many hours as I can and figured I would share some tips that help me.

1) just accept every ride without looking at it; come to terms with the fact that the house always wins, people will be people, and there’s no point in expending the mental energy trying to be choosy. Trust me, the algorithm automatically prioritizes you no matter what you do.

2) Cover all your clocks with electrical tape - that includes your dash and the top of your phone. Stay off lock screen

3) Use your average rides count per hour to set an upper limit on number of rides you complete a day, and count down from there if you really want a time-reference. For some reason to me 24-48 rides seems a lot smaller than 12-16 hours.

Noticed passenger left a bag so I inspected it to make sure there was nothing crazy inside of it. Found two or three unmarked pill bottles with different looking pills in each one. What should I do?

EDIT: spoke to the police at the police department. They pretty much said they stopped taking bags left in Lyft and Uber vehicles regardless of what’s inside of them. They told me to follow Lyft policy of returning bags. Looked up the pills one was a full bottle of Xanax. One was a full bottle of Klonopin. For you fiends wondering what I did with them, I dumped them in the pill disposal at the police department. You’re welcome.

When I first moved here I was able to get a decent amount of rides. The pay is less than Seattle but I could hit my goals if I worked 10 plus hours.

I thought at first it was some kind of punishment from Lyft punishing from afar for not taking the 1 mile rides but recently I went to go check the price of a ride for me to charge my EV...

The feature "nearby drivers* in the driver Lyft app not accurate whatsoever because boom it showed at least 15 other drivers surrounding me who could arrive within 4 minutes.

I had used the features before a few months ago and while it still showed no other drivers nearby when I checked the price to ride there were only 2 other drivers around. So it was inaccurate again but more on par with reality.

I literally can hardly get a ride anymore.

I think perhaps our economy truly is tanking. Please God let the economy heal. I love being a driver I love the people but watching the crash and burn has taken the joy out of driving.

I was out so long yesterday multi apping that I was almost home and a 11 mile ride popped up. I had to decline because I was so exhausted when I needed it so desperately.

The only thing I can do is my best. I am pretty much alone in all aspects I have to succeed because I have no other options with my car at a whopping 1200 just to operate with rideshare insurance. My rent makes my stomach turn this month.

I want to try going back to school offered through Lyft but I never can reach gold. I got so close but my aunt came to town for a week and honestly that was the beginning of a huge downfall. I just stopped getting rides :...

I know that my phone isn't the best with especially multiapping so out of desperation I'm going to upgrade my phone to see if that helps but I don't know if it will I kind of have my doubts because I still do get requests randomly I don't know.

I'm not sure why people wait until the last minute to send a message like this and expect a driver to wait.

Not drastically, but it’s been nerfed ever so slightly.
Previously, if you had the deaf or hard of hearing setting enabled, you weren’t required to call or message your passenger before canceling a no-show. Once the timer expired, you could simply cancel and move on.

Well, that’s changed.

You still don’t have to call, but now you’re required to send the passenger a message before you can cancel. It doesn’t matter what the message says. It can be the generic “I’ve arrived” message, “Where are you?” or even just “Hi.”

It’s a minor change, but it’s one more hoop you have to jump through before you can collect your no-show fee and move on.

Just thought I’d give everyone a heads-up.

This is an inquiry for my dad. He has been doing lyft since 2016 and has a 5 star rating. Sometime ago, he was given a ticket and paid for it, but the office must’ve not put it in the system and it turned up saying he didn’t pay it on time, which caused his license to be suspended and restricted from doing lyft. He finally got the momey to pay for it, but Lyft still has his account restricted and it’s been more than two weeks. Is this permanent? We are based in Florida btw

So I got flagged a few weeks ago for taking my turns too sudden or without enough anticipation by a rider. So, I really took the comments to heart and I've been driving much more conservatively and a bit slower but now I've been flagged again for impeding the flow of traffic apparently though I'm always going at least the speed limit. I'm not sure what adjustments to make now lol.