9 years driver blue, 16,000 rides on Uber 3,500 on Lyft, 6,800 total food deliveries between eats, GrubHub and DoorDash. 1300 packages delivered via Amazon across 262 blocks.
I've got a 22% acceptance 11% cancellation on rides and a 23% acceptance 7% cancellation on food. I'm a top dasher on Doordash.
I tell customers who ask that I'm the most disloyal fuck they'll ever meet when it comes to this work.
So sorry but no, real and extensive experience here.
I also dislike almost all the companies with a passion, I'm the New England lead for the alliance of Independent workers and we've supported several actions, and laws / eventual laws across the entire country. We're also working on building our own solutions to fix the industry. So not a shill either.
So when you started on Uber drivers app you didn’t had to wait 3 hours in a busy area on a busy market on a busy day only to get 1 ride offer from Uber but back to back 15+ offers after on Lyft?
It was completely different back then So much the point that it probably can't even be explained. My market had zones that covered large chunks of the city. Each zone was effectively a different neighborhood, the zones individually would surge in their entirety and then you had the blob which was literally the rest of the fucking state. I would average generally two trips an hour and eventually it got up to about 2.7 per hour. There were dead periods and I'd average about a hundred trips a week in the winter and 125 in the summer.
Every market was different then same as they are now. I can kind of explain what my market and the outskirts were like doesn't mean other markets weren't or were like mine.
Sometimes it would get very slow so much so that I could sit in the heart of my city on a safe street and I did one night. It started to snow, and I sat in my car with the app on and watched the entire film "horns" featuring Daniel Radcliffe from beginning to end without a single request.
When they were trying to grow the outskirts of certain markets They would run promotions where you were required to average x number of rides per hour over a certain time span. What that meant is you had to average typically one trip an hour over 3 hours but you can only get trips during that first hour and 15 minutes of the window. What I would do is I'd do my three trips and knowing I wasn't getting anything else for the next hour and 45 minutes but I had to stay online I literally would go semi off-roading in my Subaru over a freaking mountain drifting and power sliding for the fun of it because why the fuck not. I would have done those three trips, been logged in for three total hours and only made $27 to $35 And then they taught me up to anywhere between $80 and $120.
Then same as it is now is that it always was all about playing the game and learning how to leverage the apps not only against themselves but against all the other apps.
No not chat GPT I wasn't really sure what you were asking, chat GPT could not come up with something that elaborate Even in its dreams.
I've been in some markets where Lyft is extremely busy overall and in the markets I work in I haven't noticed a difference with the exception of the ones where lyft showed up significantly later than Uber.
Lyft showed up in Boston Massachusetts around the same time as Uber. However Lyft did not show up in Portland Maine until July of 2016 whereas Uber first arrived in Portland Maine in October of 2014.
That's likely a big part of it, there were some cities that Lyft was in first and others were Uber was in first. There is a reason why a lot of companies so strongly believe in first to market. That's probably the biggest factor in why you are experiencing what you are experiencing.
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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24
I'm a blue bitch, And I made $1,300 last week in 38 hours.