[Ms. Mercenary]

What’s your preferred method? Do you wait for a ping going your way? If so, how long do you wait before giving up and just going home?

Do you end it after you get a great ping to your area and just say “might as well call it a day”?

Any other ways?

I’m just curious as I’m more of the former, but most of the time end up going (a) empty and (b) later than I intended.

I’m asking as I got a great ping about 5 pm and thought it was too early. So now have been sitting here shadowboxing crappy pings.

 

[SinTaxERROR]

I just go home when I cannot deal with the monotony anymore… that might be one hour after I start or 12 hours… lol

 

[Uberdriver2710]

If I am not busy around 7pm, I quit.

 

[Whatsamatta U]

When I'm ready to quit, I just head home but stay on-line. Then if something really good comes my way I'll take it. Usually nothing really good comes along.

 

[Mcwharthog]

I usually have a set end time before I start driving based on my schedule for that day. If I drive on a weekday, it is 7:00 to 10 am. My full time job is 11:00am to 9:00pm. On weekends usually 7:00 to noon, so I will have my afternoons free.

If it is slow, I will go home and leave the app on and wait for a good ping while relax on the couch or work on other projects.

 

[Stevie The magic Unicorn]

When I feel like throwing my phone out the ****ing window or dumping someone's food into the gutter I finish whateve delivery i'm on shut off my phone and hope i can remember how to get home without GPS.

 

[Atavar]

I drive until I see a string of worthless pings. When they start I take it as a sign and log off.
More than a few times I have found myself near home but early. If it’s slow I just log off and head home for a movie and an adult beverage.

 

[Ms. Mercenary]

Well, I did it again yesterday. Declined the 5 pm ping heading home, then sat in a parking lot for 3 hours declining decent pings heading in the opposite direction until I threw in the towel and headed home around 8, feeling like a moron.

Every. Friggin. Day.

 

[CZ75]

When I did Eats I found myself running late at night and into the early morning. The proverbial "hoot owl" shift. It worked quite well and rivaled my X earnings at the time. Even driving in the suburbs of DFW one could do four deliveries an hour for a decent gross $20-$25/hr while not doing too many crazy miles on the car. Reminder though, this was when Uber did time+miles+pickup fee+dropoff fee and not whatever mystical concoction they've done after 2019. I think it was October or November when they did that payment change and it signaled my time to leave. Covid of 2020 was a nice booster but I eventually left by late summer.

With that said I imagine the principle is still the same. No car traffic, no foot traffic, and all green lights on the road at 2am while you/we hustle out the $50 Jack-in-the-Box orders at 2am. Richardson TX was a good stomping ground and so heading home, I would leave the app on and do the app trick to see where the destination was. At the time, you could slide "start delivery" despite being 2 miles from the pickup point and quickly see where it was headed. The app would then 'error' you and spit out a prompt that said I'm not on the pickup point but that didn't matter. I could see exactly where I'm delivering and the customer details (home/apartment?) I'd do that a few times while generally heading home. If something matched, then I'd take it. If not, gg.

 

[ColonyMark]

I quit whenever I get tired or it gets very slow.
Or sometimes on Sunday my family texts me to ask if I can pick up ice cream on my way home. Yeah! Ice cream! Screw work

 

[Rickos69]

I may be sitting there, saying to myself, I'll wait till 8. Then all of a sudden, I start the car, and go home.

 

[reg barclay]

Once I'm within a half hour of ending my shift, I start looking for something heading towards home.

At that point, I'll take offers a bit lower than my usual amount (within reason) if they're on the way.

The area I usually drive in is about 6-12 miles from where I live. If I get orders going close to home in the middle of a shift, I tend to decline them, unless the amount is really high. Because I don't like getting close to home, then driving back out there for a half/quarter shift.

 

[reg barclay]

I only wait about 10-15 minutes for something heading towards home. Max, half an hour.

This is completely anecdotal with no data to back it up. But sometimes when I give up and start driving towards home, I immediately get something.

 

[Rickos69]

This is completely anecdotal with no date to back it up. But sometimes when I give up and start driving towards home, I immediately get something.

I believe we have all had this happen to us!

 

[ThanksUber]

I really don't quit but after about 3 to 5 days of sorta sleep driving and napping 1 to 3 hours in the car 2 to 4 times a day. I reach my limit and I'll stop wherever I am and sleep for 8 hours and shower at planet fitness. I try to get home about once a week to 10 days. I'm retired now and wife is gone so I don't have to ever go home. I really don't know what I would do at home anyways. Watch TV? Wait to die? The only thing I really enjoy is bike riding with my grandson and that's a little hard with the snow in Minneapolis. I'm fine playing video games with the little guy but some of the shooting/war games reminds me of Vietnam a little too much. I guess I'm ok with Minecraft. I'm also OK with hitting the casino. Blackjack and the slots.

 

[SinTaxERROR]

I drive until I see a string of worthless pings.

You must not drive much 🥳

 

[Atavar]

You must not drive much 🥳

I drive daily. Today started out with three declines but was ok after that.