[Logistics12]

Accepted a trip for $234 to Gaithersburg, MD. Wow! Then I calculated my costs. $50 supercharging (both ways), $40 tolls (both ways) leaving $144 for ten hours of driving. No thanx.

There's a very good reason businesses hire accountants and financial people to make some of the decisions.

 

[painfreepc]

Or just decline unprofitable rides. It’s that easy.

I have bills to pay, maybe people pay your bills for you cuz they love you so much I don't know what your situation is

 

[painfreepc]

Want to make it clear that I would not do this trip before I ask my question and comment

this trip will cost me about $27 in gas (oneway) at my current local area gas prices of about $3.60 per gallon, my question is is there absolutely no chance of any trip at all on the way back short or long, is there no cities you can work in on the way back for a few hours.

 

[Grubhubflub]

Why is the passenger a moron? We are the morons for being in a relationship with moronic devilish companies such as Uber and Lyft. Who can say what the circumstance is that the passenger had to take rideshare instead of say, a car service. Whatever the reason, I pray I'll never find myself in that situation (without a vehicle and having to depend on a stranger to get me where I need to go).

Get real. You honestly think this person just had to get to some place over 200 miles away and had no option other than to call a Lyft or Uber?

 

[25rides7daysaweek]

If you get 25mpg, you’d need about 10 gallons of gas… @ $3/gal is $30 gas cost. $124pay - $30gas = $94take home $94/3.5 hours = $26.85/hour thats excellent pay in my opinion. Take some rides on your way back towards home to cover return costs. This would have been a good ride for me, but y’all act like gas is some ridiculous amount & want to include the “return trip” to calculate your numbers🙄🙄as if Lyft should pay you to go back to your starting location.

Welcome new member. They dont think Lyft should pay your way back but they fact remains that sometimes these rides lead you to a no mans land.
One way or another you are going to need to get back and counting on rides to pay for it is usually a losing proposition. Long rides like this are generally ensuring you will make a low amount of money per hour..

 

[painfreepc]

Get real. You honestly think this person just had to get to some place over 200 miles away and had no option other than to call a Lyft or Uber?

Why the are you doing rideshare, you think the passengers have all these other options, and are you in the mindset that the passengers know what we're being paid they don't have access to that information whatsoever.

 

[Grubhubflub]

Why the are you doing rideshare, you think the passengers have all these other options, and are you in the mindset that the passengers know what we're being paid they don't have access to that information whatsoever.

Well, I think it's clear that Lyft is a service for getting around the city or maybe to nearby cities. It is not for taking cross-country trips, which is how I'd classify a 200+ mile trek. Maybe that distance isn't much to you, though.

 

[painfreepc]

Well, I think it's clear that Lyft is a service for getting around the city or maybe to nearby cities. It is not for taking cross-country trips, which is how I'd classify a 200+ mile trek. Maybe that distance isn't much to you, though.

I am also a customer so if you're saying it's classified please tell me how come I can select a long trip, and as a driver when I come out in the morning at 2:00 a.m. if I see a trip going to San Diego and it's before 3:30 a.m. I take it even though it only pays about $100 to go 110 Mi cuz I can still work in San Diego and even get trips parts of he way back or if I leave San Diego early in the morning I can come part of the way back and still get a good trip going back to San Diego that pays well I don't live in a piece totally bad Market.

 

[Yotadriver]

My eyes lit up when I first saw that $124, I admit. They almost had me. 😂

It’s ridiculous! Seriously not even funny to see these anymore.

 

[Grubhubflub]

I am also a customer so if you're saying it's classified please tell me how come I can select a long trip

Because it's not Lyft's job to make sure drivers are not taken advantage of. There's a difference between taking advantage of a service, and taking advantage of the person performing the service. When you drive someone 110 miles using your own car, you're allowing yourself to be taken advantage of.

 

[painfreepc]

Because it's not Lyft's job to make sure drivers are not taken advantage of. There's a difference between taking advantage of a service, and taking advantage of the person performing the service. When you drive someone 110 miles using your own car, you're allowing yourself to be taken advantage of.

My personal car is also a business tool, and I don't live in a crap market, I can still cherry pick some good trips, and every long trip is not a deadhead back home.

 

[Rideshare drv]

My eyes lit up when I first saw that $124, I admit. They almost had me. 😂

Hey guys starting this year you will have to pay Lydt & Huber just to turn on the app.
L.O.L You guys are already paying for it.
Keep on driving to your graveyard.

Happy new year to all.

 

[Grubhubflub]

My personal car is also a business tool, and I don't live in a crap market, I can still cherry pick some good trips, and every long trip is not a deadhead back home.

Your car is a business tool? Well then, you need to do a better job taking care of it because from what you're telling me you put hundreds of miles a week on it; unless you don't mind spending all that money on fuel and maintenance.

 

[painfreepc]

Your car is a business tool? Well then, you need to do a better job taking care of it because from what you're telling me you put hundreds of miles a week on it; unless you don't mind spending all that money on fuel and maintenance.

Yeah as a business tool I have to pay for routine maintenance and synthetic oil changes every 10,000 miles, as for major repairs car is covered to 150,000 miles, as far as selling the car I will sell it while still a decent Transportation car I won't run the wheels off of it as some of you here like to say, and I can do 33 to 35 miles per gallon, I Cherry Picked my trips wisely, and I don't consider my insurance and my cell phone bill and car washes as money I'm not making off of every trip because regardless of uber and Lyft I still have to pay insurance and I still have a cell phone bill pay for unlimited car washes, happy ubering.

 

[painfreepc]

Oh did I also forget to add when I do have a major repair and I've had one so far I get free Rental Car Rental yay, which means I can still go do Uber Eats and still make money.

 

[painfreepc]

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[The super uber]

Some shmuck jumped on that 6+ hr round trip for $20/hr which after paying for a full tank of gas comes to $15/hr . You want fries with that ?

Uber is in big trouble. Drivers are pissed. Pay is low because of ZERO Quests. Stock is at 24. Squeeze the lifeblood (drivers) and see a continuing drop in the stock and drop in the Uber profits.

 

[Logistics12]

There's virtually no chance anyone accepted it at that putrid pay rate. Even if Lyft was to offer $200 it would be a tough sell. Most likely the pax received a "No Driver Available" message in the app.

I need us all to wake up and realize that Uber (I don't think Lyft can actually do it) has flooded the market (at least in California) with drivers who are "somehow" willing to accept $5.20 for an 11 minute pickup and 9 min ride. In my market

Or you could include a reasonable tip to ensure you get picked up.

I'm a driver, not a passenger. And since when can drivers see tips before the pickup??? Moron.

 

[painfreepc]

I need us all to wake up and realize that Uber (I don't think Lyft can actually do it) has flooded the market (at least in California) with drivers who are "somehow" willing to accept $5.20 for an 11 minute pickup and 9 min ride. In my market

I'm a driver, not a passenger. And since when can drivers see tips before the pickup??? Moron.

The ability for passenger's to add upfront tips is something that seriously needs to be added to Uber and lyft, I work the orange show Rave in San Bernardino for New Year's Eve lot of short trips were coming up only going a few miles down the street there were only paying around 20 bucks why would I take that trip when I could go only two or three times the distance and make 30 or 40 bucks, if the passenger is half the ability to add 10 or 20 bucks as a tip I would have picked up a few more of the short trips but instead they stand out there for hours waiting to be picked up cuz almost no Uber or Lyft driver with any common sense is going to pick up a short trip when all the better paying trips are right there and they're only going a few miles further.

 

[Diamondraider]

I drive I 75 every day. The speed limit is 70mph, but if you arent doing at least 80 you get left behind. especially on the portion across the Everglades known as Alligator Alley. Not that makes the trip worth taking.
And its not just about the money
its also about the fact that there is no possibility of a return trip

Im in Ft Myers I wont do the trip to Fort Lauderdale or Miami either, but I will go the other way to Tampa, if it comes up early in the day. Ill just work a few hours in Tampa and when Im ready to go home, set the destination filter and I can usually get a series of rides home

@oldfart Curious what might be a price range for a private trip; RSW to Airport/PineRidgeRd Naples? And the return leg? The in-laws can’t make the trip anymore and me, my wife and small dog take 4 to 5 trips a year.

*I drive in the Boston market. Maybe i can throw you some scheduled business.
*** I’d never use Uber. I have a few relatives i can inconvenience before I feed the monster hard earned driving cash. 🤣