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Just kinda wondering how much money is there to be made at Lollapalooza
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Drive the right times and enough to not hste yourself for working for uber. Drive on the days with the biggest name performing
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In reality, no good $$ is to be made slaving around lolla. If you go there then you're as dumb as a potato.
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I'm new driving for Uber so I went to Lolla thinking I was going to make a killing. Never saw a surge and after 2 hours of sitting in traffic I finally went to Skokie and did better waiting for the CTA train to take people the rest of the way home.... from Lollapalooza.
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You can make good $. It will be very similar to the July 4th weekend, but better. By better I mean more $, more rain, more traffic, more... wet pax? IDK. I assume people will make a killin Fri through Mon. I'll definitely be in that hot mess, unfortunately. I only work weekends, so I'm not letting a concert or 2 scare me away from big earnings! That is what Tim, from Uber, promised me!
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Tim is funny lol every other morning at 9am he sends me a text with my name only in capital letters and that's it lol then few hours later he says the demand is through the sky! See you on the road!
I'm on strike this week lol and i owe Uber 30 bucks for gas...i wonder if I go negative into next week, will they start charging me interest?
I'm on strike this week lol and i owe Uber 30 bucks for gas...i wonder if I go negative into next week, will they start charging me interest?
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Put yourself in Tim's shoes for a moment. You're a guber employee working 80 hour weeks for 35k salary. Your only hope is this turd of a job eventually foists an IPO onto the pension funds so you can cash out your meager stock options and go back to working for the stirbucks, where at least they treat you as a human instead of a bot.
Now the question is WWTD? My bet is he's charging you interest dog!
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Yeah Tim is ****ing great!
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I delivered two passenger to Lollapalooza yesterday from Palatine. Earned $41 + a $10 Tip. (3 hours round trip)
Delivered 4 passengers from Wheeling to Lollapalooza today. Earned $37 + $3 Tip. (2 hours 30 min round trip)
Was it worth it? I'm still undecided. Made more than making 3 or 4 short runs from suburb to suburb each day,..but oh that Chicago traffic!
I delivered two passenger to Lollapalooza yesterday from Palatine. Earned $41 + a $10 Tip. (3 hours round trip)
Delivered 4 passengers from Wheeling to Lollapalooza today. Earned $37 + $3 Tip. (2 hours 30 min round trip)
Was it worth it? I'm still undecided. Made more than making 3 or 4 short runs from suburb to suburb each day,..but oh that Chicago traffic!
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My rule of thumb.. If I make $20 per hour net driving, it's a success. It includes deadheading miles. In your case, it comes out under $20 per hour. Therefore it's not worth it.
And yeah.. Chicago traffic is brutal. 1 hour from loop to Ord is nuts!!
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If Lyft's destination filter wasn't such a worthless piece of junk, I could pick up someone heading back out to the suburbs around 2pm, but that never happens. The dead-head drive back to the Schaumburg area is always longer than what it took to get to Lollapalooza. I think people are getting off work earlier and earlier.
Why put 5 lane highways out here in the burbs, but only 3 lanes for the ultra-busy corridor to/from Ohare? No wonder business people hate flying into Ohare. I thought RAHM wanted more businesses and conventions in Chicago. Prior mayor destroyed Meigs Field airport. Oh well.. Chicago citizens keeps electing them, sooo....
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I agree. Uber is the same garbage. It's called a DESTINATION filter... but acts like a ROUTE filter. Annoying. I should be able to select multiple south suburbs, including mine, and have them only ping me with rides that are being dropped off in that vicinity. But the DF now blows and just wastes my miles and time.
I've done Lollapalooza the past 2 nights and found out the surge actually starts around 10:15, and goes up every 2 minutes. If you wait till about 10:24 it should be at a 3.6x, it's worked for me the past two nights.. also when it rains the surge spikes, so watch the weather before it starts so you can get those surges. Thursday it went up to a 5.2x
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Whoa, brutal!
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Wow, that sucks. Brutal was right. That's why I am not out there for it.
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Did you take upper or lower Wacker?
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Should've walked. Would've been faster
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