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#1 ·
Hi All uber bros,

Just joined uber few days ago, sharing my experience and earning so far.

Driving weekday 5pm to 2am ( 9 hours ), an average of $150-$170 per night ( around 250KM )

Here is the break downs for car rental & petrol
average $160 per night - uber comm ( 20% ) = Balance $128
( Car Rental ) $57/day + ( Petrol ) $35 ( per day - 250km ) = $92 - $128 = $36 ( your earning per day )

This is my breakdown of my earning for driving uber, where my rental is cheaper than most of those uber driver who rent car from other Car Rental Company.

I sharing my own experience here with all the new uber driver or who think of joining uber as driver.

IMO if it is your own personal car, the earning should be better by additional $30-$40.
 
#3 ·
yes about $4 per hour.

So the new incentive that uber had roll out is not sensible at all.
The guarantee per trip is almost the same as what we earn on average. We can take it as no incentive except for those " lucky " ones.

Uber driver is increasing much more faster than rider i think mainly we are lure in by the previous incentive $37/hour.
 
#6 · (Edited)
The new accelerator guarantee makes it difficult for those who drive less than 20 hours to make a living. So some part timers may drop out.

If this happens, then full-time drivers may get more pings. However, they have consistently to work harder to reach and exceed the 1.8 TPH.

You may start each evening well. But you only need one long trip with multiple drop offs to screw up the evening's TPH.

Only if you are very lucky can you avoid a long trip during the 5pm - 11pm hours.

But will you be so lucky day after day, week after week?

The law of averages will still get you. You have to be lucky for 7 days in a row to hit that illusive $42/hr.

If you get it this week, will you still be so lucky next week?

Good luck.
 
#8 ·
One good thing is that Uber pays weekly. For those of us with families to support this is very helpful.

When you get sucked into the need for weekly payouts, you find yourself reluctant to leave.

Then you get into a Hotel California trap. You can check out any time but you can never leave.

With Uber, you can go offline any time but you can never leave.

Peace.
 
#9 ·
Yes i think will switch over to grabcar for the time being until Uber come out with a better incentive.

And uber office is really screw up. Existing drivers enquiries, new driver registration or customer service and everything all cramp into that miserable 1 or 2 front desk.
No clear sign to which counter to queue for what purpose. The office layout and planning really sucks.
 
#10 ·
To those who think uber will come up with better scheme ... Think again. .. I believe the scheme will get worse and worse till it's almost Same, if not less than fare. Only those lucky few that clock many short trips will benefit from it. Otherwise , the majority will be running on fare alone. The new scheme for next week. 1.9 tph for 80 plus hours to get 40 per hour. Seriously. I don't know how much longer uber will last in Singapore. Fare is much lower than cab. And Even weekly trips incentive is took out. Really see no point in the scheme.
 
#14 ·
Then let's do the responsible thing by inviting our friends n family to visit this forum before they sign up as a driver. Let them have a chance to peek at the other side of the Uber screensaver.

Personally, I wouldn't want my friends n family to blame me for inviting them into hot soup for any amount of referral fee. It just doesn't stick well on my conscience.
 
#16 ·
This F1 sucks big time. Almost 2 hours rounding not even a single ping. Wonder is it the uber app got problem or what. Saw a lots of uber drivers around rounding and waiting for pings too.

Work so hard manage to get 1.5tph and now bcos of this, all incentive gone. Really suck big big time
 
#19 ·
New weekly Incentives is out.
Guess what, It is getting from bad to worst.
But good for those still half hearted uber drivers thinking should they switch to GC or quit.
This is the best time as we see from here, Uber is not going to make the incentive better for you guys to earn.
Instead they will make it worst.

Let switch or quit.
Thinking of how to better inform those new driver or those thinking of becoming uber drivers.
 
#22 ·
I had just finished driving Uber full-time for one week and received a payment statement today. After deducting petrol and data plan (sky high when using Uber app), I left with $100+. My two friends started same day as me, one left with $20 and the other one left with <$100. All 3 of us have decided to quit on 19th October 2015, the earliest date possible.
 
#26 ·
The way the new accelerator incentives are set up, you will only earn money if you meet all 3 parameters.

1. Online during all peak hours, in order to hit the higher tier of PSH (Peak Supply Hours)

2. Get consistent pings while you're online, and pray for short trips with no traffic jams so that you hit the higher tier of TPH (Trip Per Hour, good luck to you in morning peak hours)

3. Drive all off-peak hours as well, in order to hit 100 trips per week consistently for the $400 gold loyalty incentive. However, you will have higher fuel costs. And one week of hitting below 100 trips will reset you back to the silver tier (assuming you still managed above 60 trips) for the next 3 weeks.

So in short, they got it all covered. To earn high peak hour guaranteed fares, you have to be online for most of the peak hours, if you get a few bad stretch of no pings, long journeys, or traffic jams, then your TPH will be screwed. You gotta drive all day, everyday, to earn "fantastic cash" .
 
#25 ·
Yes i think will switch over to grabcar for the time being until Uber come out with a better incentive.

And uber office is really screw up. Existing drivers enquiries, new driver registration or customer service and everything all cramp into that miserable 1 or 2 front desk.
No clear sign to which counter to queue for what purpose. The office layout and planning really sucks.
i totally agree with gridweave . you feel like a kuku don't know where to go.
 
#33 ·
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absolutely! For 1.6L Jap car, typically around $12-15k per annum depreciation.

Maintenance cost can be significant as ubering can be very harsh driving. Prolly bro infinitude can share more on this as I believe he is using his personal car for ubering.
Calculated liao. Fuel plus maintenance abt 25 to 30% of returns. If add 10 yrs car price, without taking into consideration kill car price, should b up to 35% of takings. This differs from car makes:)
 
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