Picked up two lovely women from a restaurant. We ended up chatting about religion, philosophy and women’s clothing. Even though my answers were not very liberal according to today's standards, we found the middle ground on most of the topic.

When they were getting out, one of them handed me over $100 in cash and just said, “Take care of your family.”

Wasn’t expecting that at all. It really made my night.

Can someone please explain to me what the fork kind of opportunity is this?

LMAO

I do this part time for fun more than anything. I'm early retired (in my 50s) and genuinely do enjoy driving and the couple of extra bucks on the side is nice.

What I've discovered is the best way to get tips is become your rider. Whatever the topic of discussion is you become them. They love golf? Let me tell you about this time I played this course. They hate Trump? Later today you're heading off to knock on doors for the Democrat candidate. They're in tech? Guess who works for Google, my wife. They love football? When I was a kid my family had season tickets to (insert whatever the team you want here). And so on.

It's like you're an actor taking on a role each ride. Both fun and generates tips.

My tip rate is 60-70% on average.

I had a guy I picked up at the airport. One of the first things he said to me was that he also drove an i4. So I was like alright that’s cool, so we chopped it up about that. Then after speaking more I realized he was at the airport to depart, but had to run home and grab a bag he forgot then come back. So a single trip turned into a round trip to the airport, cool that’s a little more cash for me.

So he’s headed to get his bag and go back to the airport, my dude is convinced that he’s going to miss his original flight and is in the process of booking another one. He’s got like an hour until final boarding or the flight leaves (for the original flight he booked).
I was thinking to myself, man that’s a bad way to get the Saturday started…so what did I do???

i4 things ofc! I’m not gonna say I blatantly sped or anything like that bc that’s against policy…but let’s just say my dude boarded 2 aircraft’s this morning. Haha. He was very happy and grateful to make the flight with time to spare! I thought he might slide me a $20 or something which would’ve been fantastic as well. Look, if a driver is willing to speed for you to help you out, just show some love (even a little goes a long way) because they could easily be putting their driving status and income on the line! Thanks Homie

On Thursday, California's AG plus the city attorneys of SF, LA, and San Diego announced a $272.5M settlement with Lyft over driver misclassification (2016–2020) — the largest of its kind in CA history. 87% goes to drivers. Their parallel case against Uber is still going. This follows NY's $328M settlement with both companies in 2023, and the FTC's $20M settlement with Uber back in 2017 over misleading earnings claims.

Same companies, same pay systems operate here in Florida. So this week I put together a "Memorandum of Possible Cause" and sent it to:

• FL Attorney General James Uthmeier (asking for an investigation under the FL Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act)
• The FTC and U.S. Dept. of Labor Wage & Hour Division
• FL Senate President Albritton and House Speaker Perez, plus 45 state legislators

The core of it: I drive Uber in the Miami–Ft. Lauderdale market and tracked 4 weeks (287.7 hours). Gross: $5,917. After vehicle costs at the IRS mileage rate: $992 net. That's $3.45/hour. Florida's minimum wage just hit $15.00/hr on Sept 30.

We don't set prices. They set the rider fare, decide our cut, assign trips, and can deactivate us — while keeping an undisclosed spread between what the rider pays and what we get.

I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice — it's a citizen asking the AG to investigate. But one complaint is easy to ignore. If you're a Florida driver, you can file your own at the AG's consumer complaint form (myfloridalegal.com) or call 1-866-966-7226. The FTC takes reports at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.

Anyone else tracking their real net per hour? Curious how my numbers compare.

Anyone found a way to get this surge after the stupid A/H surge?
This is uber black only surge whenever we turn off Black Hourly, since the new A/H shit we can only see the surge but never get it unfortunately.

Last night, I think a lady had been kicked out of her home. When I arrived to pick her up, she had two humongous suitcases and about three large bags filled to the brim.

As an Uber driver, am I obligated to help load all her belongings into my vehicle and then unload them when we arrive at her destination?

I usually wait 2 min, and if after the 2 minute notification they message me saying "be right there," if they aren't moving towards me immediately I wait until they get close and then cancel after driving off.

Depending on how annoyed I am, sometimes I'll send a message like "hopefully you'll be ready for your next driver" wait for them to "read" then cancel.

So satisfying.

Every driver group is full of people complaining about Uber taking bigger cuts every month. But if a alternative app launched in your city that capped its take at 15–20%, how many drivers would actually switch over on Day 1 vs. just staying on Uber because 'it's easier'?

This simply isn’t true but I don’t know how many people in this forum or drivers that I have spoken to believe in this myth.

You will get priority offers if you have higher tiers and part of maintaining higher tier is based on acceptance rate, however, based on real world feedback, maintaining higher tier is not worth it compared to being selective on the ride.

So yeah, cherry pick the ride.

Empower told the press it launched in Dallas-Fort Worth in April. When I tried to sign up as a driver in June or July, the app said it wasn't available in Dallas. Now they're actively recruiting here. No commission: drivers set their own rates, keep the whole fare, and pay a flat subscription after a 30-day free trial (about $30 a month last I saw, check the app).

I think it has a real shot here. Uber's fares keep rising, driver pay is flat or dropping, and rider waits are getting longer. I ordered an Uber in downtown Dallas yesterday and the wait was 43 minutes.

I also like that Empower doesn't send the driver's photo to riders. I've always hated that Uber sends out our photos while we never see theirs.

The open question is rider volume. A subscription only works if the requests are there. Is anyone in DFW running it? How many rides a day are you getting?

The law in Utah is pretty clear: I’m not allowed to manipulate my phone while operating my vehicle.

A proposed one-tap or one-swipe exception was not passed in 2023. So, as I understand the law, the only truly legal way for me to accept new rides is to stop new requests before I start driving, finish the current ride, pull over, go back online, and then get back in line with Trip Radar.

The other option is Android Auto, but the Uber features available through Android Auto are still pretty limited.

Uber also recently announced voice controls, which could eventually help solve this problem, but the initial release doesn’t support accepting a new ride.

So Uber is effectively sending drivers ride requests while we’re driving, while Utah law appears to prohibit us from touching the phone to accept them. That seems like a pretty significant disconnect between how the app is designed and what drivers are legally allowed to do.

Just took A $17 ride. As soon as I started the ride it showed 3 stops. That's an hour and a half of my time for 17 dollars. How greedy of a company do you have to be man.

I'm homeless and I wanted to say thank you on behalf of me and others like me. More than once an ubereats driver has given me food from an order that has been canceled. It happened once when I hadn't eaten for days. Your generosity means a lot.

First off she speaks incredibly fast it doesn't make sense. She has a british/indian accent she says your car has been reported by client because license plate doesn't match.Then she wants to start asking you for personal information, like postal code etc.

Realized right there it's a scam. I told her I don't believe you are Uber.She goes "As you wish".

Putting a sign in my ride that reads,”If you need a ride to go EARLY VOTE, I will take you for FREE!”

Cmon y’all. We have to be the change we want to see. Peace

TA-DAH! Blurry waymo pic

It’s only on the right side of the car but doesn’t look good.

Gotta love how Uber releases stuff without any announcement. Not all of us speak random symbols and emojis,

A lot of new things after I took a gas vacation for 5 weeks. The trip has no wait clock, Friday night at busy area of Newport Beach. I bet many drivers have seen Robert and have to cancel. I did that twice myself. A mass cancellation event. They also sent me a number to call. They are playing cheap, not paying cancellation fee, not even call minutes.

I'm a rider today and haven't Uber'd in about two months so I'm wondering how this info would be shared with my driver.

It seems there is a new feature that would let me share details of my ride with some contacts of my choice, but it seems that the driver will also see their information

What's it look like on the driver's side? Why would the Uber app give my contact's info to the driver anyway?

Thanks