[aarondavid1010]

over 8 mins I read

 

[RynoHawk]

Yeah. Still not worth it.

 

[aarondavid1010]

Yeah. Still not worth it.

Is it not the regular amount per km after 8 mins?

 

[RynoHawk]

In most cases, the dead (unpaid) miles/kilometers driven to get to the pickup is still greater than the paid miles/kilometers. So let’s say the pick up is 5 miles away. You drive 4 miles in 8 minutes. You’re paid for one out of five miles driven to get there. Where I’m at, that’s just under 70 cents. There’s your premium.

Let’s take it a step further. Your passenger only needs to go a mile away. So you drove 6 miles and you made $3.70 or so. Sound like a premium to you?

EDIT: If you do a trip like this, go into the fare details and see what Uber makes. Last trip I did like this they made more than I did.

 

[aarondavid1010]

In most cases, the dead (unpaid) miles/kilometers driven to get to the pickup is still greater than the paid miles/kilometers. So let's say the pick up is 5 miles away. You drive 4 miles in 8 minutes. You're paid for one out of five miles driven to get there. Where I'm at, that's just under 70 cents. There's your premium.

Let's take it a step further. Your passenger only needs to go a mile away. So you drove 6 miles and you made $3.70 or so. Sound like a premium to you?

EDIT: If you do a trip like this, go into the fare details and see what Uber makes. Last trip I did like this they made more than I did.

You only get paid 70cents a mile?

In most cases, the dead (unpaid) miles/kilometers driven to get to the pickup is still greater than the paid miles/kilometers. So let's say the pick up is 5 miles away. You drive 4 miles in 8 minutes. You're paid for one out of five miles driven to get there. Where I'm at, that's just under 70 cents. There's your premium.

Let's take it a step further. Your passenger only needs to go a mile away. So you drove 6 miles and you made $3.70 or so. Sound like a premium to you?

EDIT: If you do a trip like this, go into the fare details and see what Uber makes. Last trip I did like this they made more than I did.

Nm i guess that works out conversion wise. If things are slow it might be worth it. Atleast theres an incentive. I never take anything over 4 mins as is

 

[Gov Moonbeam]

It really depends on YOUR marketplace.
In mine, there is a mid sized town (70k) with hundreds of square miles of rural all around it.
If I get a ping ten minutes away, 99% of the time, they are coming back into town - ten minutes or more away.
The one percent that takes me fifteen minutes out to take them to their favorite neighborhood bar three minutes away, then doesn't tip me .... I send a text to Uber asking them not to match me to them again.
But, like I said -- it all depends on your marketplace.
Your mileage may vary.

 

[mrpjfresh]

Unless you like to gamble, listen to Ryno's advice here. The only time, in my market, that I get they long pickup fee is when I drop off way out and get a ping in the direction that I am going (once I decode that it actually is because the damn map unnecessarily disorients and spins around when a request comes in). The one nice thing is that cancel fees are significantly higher on these long pickups.

If they let riders offer cash incentives in advance (straight to the driver like a tip) to come pick them up, then they will have my attention. Everyone would win: desperate riders in the boonies get a ride, Uber gets something instead of nothing and drivers get a fair fare. Until they, they can keep their horses*** "premium" pickups.

 

[Z129]

over 8 mins I read

Each market has a different threshold. In my market it's 12 minutes. You can see what the threshold is in your market by logging in to the Uber portal and clicking on Fares.

 

[Notch Johnson]

I did a long pick up yesterday, it took 22 minutes, I got an extra $6.66. I would not have taken it but there was also a long trip warning and it was a long one - 149 miles!

 

[reg barclay]

In most cases, the dead (unpaid) miles/kilometers driven to get to the pickup is still greater than the paid miles/kilometers. So let's say the pick up is 5 miles away. You drive 4 miles in 8 minutes. You're paid for one out of five miles driven to get there. Where I'm at, that's just under 70 cents. There's your premium.

It really depends what your cutoff point for pings was before long pickup fees were introduced. I drive in a sparsely populated area so my personal limit was 10 minutes, which happens to now be the cutoff point for getting a long pickup fee here. I now start getting paid after 10 minutes of driving, so accepting a longer pickup is basically the same for me as a 10 minute pickup would have been previously. It's basically like I'm starting the ride as soon as I hit the 10 minute mark. The main problem for me is is that the long pickup fee gets rolled into minimum fare, meaning that if the long pickup fee, plus the fare from the ride itself, don't bump it over minimum fare, then I still only get minimum fare. Which is one reason why I don't always accept them, depending on the circumstances.

 

[AllGold]

You really get burned if you take a long pickup that happens to be a short trip. The reason is Uber is super shady about it. To be precise, short trips have a minimum fare supplement. But on a short trip when you receive a long pickup premium, Uber doesn't add it to your earnings. The bastards REPLACE the minimum fare supplement with the long pickup premium.

 

[Coachman]

This is why I don't do them...

 

[Rollinlush]

Accept the ping and just wait 5-6-7-8 minutes before actually driving anywhere, you're probably the closest/only driver depending on where you're at

 

[Coachman]

Accept the ping and just wait 5-6-7-8 minutes before actually driving anywhere, you're probably the closest/only driver depending on where you're at

What possible good does that do you? Are you just hoping for a cancellation?

 

[Rollinlush]

What possible good does that do you? Are you just hoping for a cancellation?

Getting paid for the milage

 

[Squirming Like A Toad]

Make sure to always accept that on a stacked ping. Let's say you get a 15 min. stacked ping with 10 minutes left in your ride (I get a lot like those) you're getting paid by the second pax while you're still with the first one, and the dropoff will usually leave you closer to the next pickup. Free money.

 

[AllGold]

Accept the ping and just wait 5-6-7-8 minutes before actually driving anywhere, you're probably the closest/only driver depending on where you're at

What possible good does that do you? Are you just hoping for a cancellation?

Getting paid for the milage

First, how do you get paid for mileage if you're not moving?

And second, Uber expects you to make reasonable progress to the pickup. I don't know how it works exactly but my guess is if you just sit there, you are going to lose the long pickup fee, and you might actually get a cancel without being paid a cancel fee.

 

[Rollinlush]

First, how do you get paid for mileage if you're not moving?

I'll let you think long and hard about that one.

Theres nothing unreasonable about letting your pax know you're walking out the door of your home in just a minute or that you're at the gas station or in the dunkin donuts drive thru.

Uber is not all knowing and fool proof

 

[E60MM]

I'll let you think long and hard about that one.

Theres nothing unreasonable about letting your pax know you're walking out the door of your home in just a minute or that you're at the gas station or in the dunkin donuts drive thru.

Uber is not all knowing and fool proof

very true. i do this all the time because i WILL find out where the passenger is going before i leave my couch. i wait with my timer on once it hits 9 mins ill go. if the passenger cancels they will cancel within the first 3 minutes. ( i am speaking from my experience and my experience ONLY)

 

[Andocrates]

You only get paid 70cents a mile?

$0.57 per mile here. Less then truckers get per mile. However we drive farther in the mid south because land is so cheap.