Tip well.

 

30 miles is 30 miles.
Asking someone to do their job rude ! Let them stay in their " safe place" in the parking lot if they think it is rude

 

I would request the ride, and then call the driver as soon as they accept and explain the deal to them.

It may be a big inconvenience for them, in which case you can cancel with no penalty and request again. Just be sure YOU cancel.

Or...you may be paying them to drive home to their family at the end of their shift. You have no way of knowing whether your ping is good or bad for a driver.

 

I prefer long rides, I wouldn't mind it. Sometimes you catch a break and get a ride back, but it's part of the business.

 

People take Uber's much further than that. My brother has caught an Uber from Jacksonville to Durham and caught another to return. I've heard several cases of drivers taking pax from RDU to Charlotte or VA.
My suggestion would be to contact your driver and give a heads up after making the request. Some drivers don't mind going wherever you want to go. Some, such as myself, will refuse certain trips based on profitability or lack of it.
Last but not least. ........ Tip your driver.

 

If it's a standard fare trip it would be appropriate to tip the driver well because most likely they are dead heading it back to the Triangle! But most likely you won't because Uber customers are cheap sobs!

 

That would be a horrible, money-losing tip for the driver and I give a 1 star rating to passengers who take me out of the service area.

Basically the driver is getting half pay on a trip like that because they have to drive all the way back unloaded. Uber pay is already low and the only way to make money is back-to-back trips. The odds of getting another request in "the middle of nowhere" are pretty low and its even lower that they will want to go back in the direction you came from.

 

I like long rides.

 

I would have no problem as an XL request... I spoke to a driver who traveled to Charlotte from Raleigh. The fare was approximately $140 + $60 tip.

 

I drive XL and I'd pass on that one. Roughly 300 miles for $200 before expenses. The tip definitely helps but what if the pax were like most other Uber pax and didn't tip at all. This is just my opinion but any time my odometer exceeds my payout it's a loss.

 

I love these stories of large tips? I'm getting the occasional 2 $ and rare 5$ tips but never over 20$!

 

Saturday night the 3rd, I received tips of $20 twice, $10, $4 and $2 once... Normally, I get about $10 per WEEK. (LoL)

 

I was stuck in RTP a couple weeks ago at 6:30pm when my truck broke down leaving work. I work in RTP off exit 281 and live in wake Forest. I became an Uber passenger for my first ride, and got picked up within 10 minutes. Felt terrible asking the guy to take me home since its 45 min one way and he would likely have to drive empty to get back to RTP, as well as 1.5 hrs total time for a $24.00 fare. He was a good guy , pretty cool...we swapped driver stories. Gave him a $20 tip as the ride was well worth it to me.

 

This is not the norm but being a driver you understand. Great job!!! If any uber customers read this please get with the program!

 

It isn't rude for the driver but 80% of the time it's a losing situation for the driver , if it's an uber x trip call because now a days unfortunately at uber x rates if there is dead miles in any of the driver's trips it eats off his ridiculous profit that he makes , and experienced driver will mind at some point these out of no where trips because most of us got screwed with non tippers , if you take uber xl or uber select that's a different story , and definitely they will be happy to do any ling trip because it's profitable and the price per mile is higher

 

If you want a trip like that , you should order select

 

30 miles outside the area? That's nothing. Had a kid request Uber from Durham to Kinston! 125 miles one way, nearly 2 hours. He tipped what he had ($9) but I was not pleased. Won't do it again.

 

That is $15.00 per hour after gas + the tip... I do worst than that, most of the time.

 

30 miles outside the area? That's nothing. Had a kid request Uber from Durham to Kinston! 125 miles one way, nearly 2 hours. He tipped what he had ($9) but I was not pleased. Won't do it again.

You should have either kick him out your car with cancelling or set the tip upfront

 

Yeah...next time I'll decline the ride first...then if they beg, like he did, discuss a cash incentive for the trip. Up front.

 

It really all depends. I was at the airport late one night and got an army kid who had to get back to base in Fayetteville. I didn't have the heart to say no to him even though it was a crappy fare on X.

Private individual going to Pinehurst? I would negotiate a tip if it wasn't select and collect it before departing. If it's select and you are averaging 60 miles an hour then in my car I'm making about $35 an hour including the dead miles to return. I'm good with that!

 

Most cars will cost you at least 20cents/mile to use. This includes your gas.

Cost of a 250 mile to is at least $50. This brings your profit to $29.60 or, $7.40/hour

 

Damn cuz what are you driving? I get 400+miles on a full tank and it only cost me $34 in my camry.

 

what about the rest of the expenses associated with driving a car.

I was only addressing the Kinston trip's rate "per hour after gas plus tips".

 

Folks, cars cost money, tires cost money, oil changes cost money, wiper blades cost money, battery, belts, hoses .... wear an tear on car, decreased life of car, it all coststarted money. STOP thinking it's so much after gas. The other expenses are at least as much as your gas, you just forget about them to make yourself feel better. Uber counts on this, they are sucking the equity out of your car as we speak unless you drive smart.

 

THIS.

Of the 20¢ per mile it costs to drive my car (a very average Chrysler), only about 5 or 6 cents of that is gas. The other costs may take a lot of miles to realize, but that doesn't make the costs not real. Every part on your car has a finite number of miles to its life. Every mile you drive uses a bit of the life of every part.

When it comes time to replace stuff, you'll be glad if you are setting aside out of your earnings about 15cents/mile for your total miles driven into an auto maintenance fund. And that way you won't fool yourself into thinking you are making a larger profit than you really are.

 

Just tip 10 or more

 

Gas costing $2.40 per gallon and 20 mpg is 12 cent per mile.

Then those cars cost more than 20 cents per mile to run. 20 cents is some of the cheapest cars to run

 

The IRS allotment for mileage deductions is somewhere around $0.57/mile. Probably pretty accurate for a newer car, and factoring in depreciation. I have been a mechanic for years and have seen the reports in the repair order writing software that averages out customers expenses over mileage, and I think the IRS numbers are pretty close to reality. They're also pretty close to what we're getting paid for our loaded miles.

 

It's now .54 a mile