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I see uber has sent out a reminder of the Chicago rideshare ordinance where we can't be online more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period. Does this mean if you work 10 hours you have to take 14 off?

It says they're working on new features to help us stay in compliance. I wonder if being online sitting in your living room waiting for a request counts as operating a motor vehicle? This is something I do frequently at lunch. I may be online for an hour and a half without getting a request and not going near my vehicle but I'd like to be able to take that one request and then only half the time I'm actually operating the vehicle count
 
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bpm45 said:
I see uber has sent out a reminder of the Chicago rideshare ordinance where we can't be online more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period. Does this mean if you work 10 hours you have to take 14 off?

It says they're working on new features to help us stay in compliance. I wonder if being online sitting in your living room waiting for a request counts as operating a motor vehicle? This is something I do frequently at lunch. I may be online for an hour and a half without getting a request and not going near my vehicle but I'd like to be able to take that one request and then only half the time I'm actually operating the vehicle count
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Thats exactly what it means, you being online is basically telling Uber your out and about driving around which isn't the case... wonder if somehow they could update on the do's and donts
 
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As a commercial driver of 20+ years, I would strongly advise all of you to be damn careful on the amount of hours you are driving. If you wreck and are over hours, rest assured the attorneys will be all over it. Not at fault you say? Guess again. If you're somewhere you're not supposed to be, it's your fault automatically. And yes, I would fully expect they will look at any and ALL APPS.

Stay safe, my friends. I'm glad my Uber days are over with exception of an occasional Sunday morning.
 
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Uber and Lyft isn't working together on anything lol. It just means Uber is finally implementing this feature which means after ten hours online u got to take a mandatory 6 hour break before driving again. At least on Lyft it does.

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Lol hopefully this will cause the people to go offline more to save time for the "time online" not to exceed 10hrs and causes more surge

I feel for you ord pit people, go offline and lose your queue lol
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I feel that they should have a counter stop for the people at the pits seeing as most ad sleeping before a ride anyway lol.
 
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bpm45 said:
I see uber has sent out a reminder of the Chicago rideshare ordinance where we can't be online more than 10 hours in a 24-hour period. Does this mean if you work 10 hours you have to take 14 off?

It says they're working on new features to help us stay in compliance. I wonder if being online sitting in your living room waiting for a request counts as operating a motor vehicle? This is something I do frequently at lunch. I may be online for an hour and a half without getting a request and not going near my vehicle but I'd like to be able to take that one request and then only half the time I'm actually operating the vehicle count
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If Uber really cared about any laws they would make you go off line after 10 hours. Dumb Chicago law makers are more interested in ensuring Uber doesn't show riders' ratings than in enforcement of any rule that actually makes sense.
 
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it’s 10 hours across all apps, so if you are on one and off on another, the 10-hour clock is still ticking. as for how the city is implementing, based on the notice, uber, lyft and via will send reports to the city, which the city will have to process further the reports to find out riders over 10 hours. i wonder how the city will figure out when we are on one and not the other at some points in time, and both or all apps at the other times.

beside safety concerns (which i doubt it’s their highest in the list), i think the city is trying to limit the cars on streets too. too many rideshare cars are flooding the streets and by limiting the hours, it may help with the traffic not much or less. however, for uber, lyft and via as well as the drivers, this could mean revenue shrinkage. the city will be affected eventually.

people who are online waiting for a ping at home or in the pits would be affected the most. i am sure those waiting times are counted toward the limit.

the city is making it difficult for us drivers, with all the restrictions :(
 
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Is this notice really going to slow down the drivers? I'd say the majority of the drivers that do it full time are way over the 10 hour per day mark. Until someone actually gets a warning or a big fat ticket in the mail, I doubt it will do much. Uber already knows who drives over 10 hours per day. It's right there on your earnings report each day. They can run audits to see who's over. If they were turning this info over to the city, I'd say we'd know about it by now. Someone would've been on here talking about getting warned or a ticket.
 
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