Its called throttling. Uber Eats prioritizes requests to drivers that rent their cars and drivers that are brand new.

Hope this is not a full time gig for you?

 

As soon as I decline an order or cancel an order. I get penalised for one hour. Last night I declined a 5 miles away request. I lost one hour and the next order I cancelled when I got to restaurant because they had 4 big orders and told me it will be half an hour wait. I cancelled it and waited 30 minutes no ping. I switched off and went home

 

Smart man.

 

It came out of nowhere for me yesterday. I am a very, very picky UE driver, but typically have no problems. Monday and Tuesday were very decent, but yesterday and today I was getting almost no requests.

Oh, well. The weekend's almost here.

 

Monday and Tuesday was one one the worst shifts for me.
When there is high boost, does it mean it is not busy or there is less drivers around?

 

I really don't know. Since I stopped driving pax a while back, I stay in a small bubble near home doing UE.

 

It’s because they just on boarded a crap load of post mates drivers starting Monday.

 

It's so random, I think it mostly depends on how many drivers are out and/or how busy it actually is (nobody really knows). I also think many drivers just do this part time and when the sign on incentives are offered to new drivers like the $250 for 10 deliveries everyone and his/her mother signs up does the 10 deliveries and bails. I went out today on Weds. and made out very well (no, I will not post my earnings) but I'll probably go out tomorrow and it'll be crickets because that's just the way it goes.

 

This lull is starting to be every day.

30+ minutes into today, no requests yet...

Two weeks ago, this was not an issue.

 

No promotions for pax = lower or no demand.

 

Last Sunday, however, was great. At least the 3 hour afternoon stretch i worked was.

 

Every morning between 3 and 6am there was always boost but for last few days there is no boost

 

Before covid in San Francisco when UE was giving boosts they were poaching every others apps drivers by sending an SMS and the infamous throttle would occur for the OGs

I was actually earning more before and after lunch/diner boosts
At first I blamed myself but later I was asking and of course no one shows their phones earnings screen but I showed a few mine and got the nod
It is a shame cus there is so much potential that these platforms are not seeing

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No requests since Tuesday

 

nice hourly !

 

I worked yesterday (Saturday) did not get one single UE request. I got DD requests all day so at least I made some $. I’ve been delivering food for 2 years. Yesterday was the first day with no pings from UE.

 

To me, that’s really bizarre. There’s something definitely going on, I don’t quite understand it myself. The only thing I can think of, is there some type of discrepancy of how Uber is handling things with the divvying between Postmates and Uber with pings. That, or their popularity is completely falling off.

 

my eats wen from popping to dead within past few days

 

I have been driving people again for about the past month. I tend to leave both Eats and UberX preferences on, in case I get a really juicy Eats request ($15 / 20 minutes or something). They just aren't happening very frequently, and when I am near downtown they tend to be doubles.

 

I looked at my account info and for some reason it says my car is not yet approved. The same car I’ve always used. My registration and safety inspection are still valid

 

A lot of us tthink there was some issue with the recent merge of postmates drivers. Remember, Uber laid off a lot of programmers last year. Maybe it affected some of us. I am also in D/FW and has issues last week.

 

I am receiving requests today

 

When PM first integrated here it picked things up. Now it's slowwww and the change happened pretty fast. I bet there was a bit of a delay getting the PM drivers integrated. Now that they are integrated its very slow. Or they just hired a bunch of new drivers. Or they stopped giving customers free delivers. We will never really know. It's just noticeably slower and I've had to resort to rideshare at the beginning of my shift and end. In the heart of the dinner rush I'm usually mostly doing eats. For the last year I've been doing UE almost exclusively (and I was a happy employee). That ended about 10 days ago. Anyone with a car can do deliveries. At least on RS there is a minimum requirement for vehicle standards.

At first the PM pings were superior in pay. I'm sure this will be "corrected" soon to match the lower paying UE.